<p>The problem is that you can't factor the subdomain problem directly because it is singular. So you either copy it into a bigger matrix (with Lagrange multipliers) or extract a submatrix (by dropping vertices).</p>
<p>If I assemble a matrix with selected vertices, I can factor it and solve the constrained problems without needing to refactor.</p>
<p>The case with no selected vertices could be a special case, and worked with exactly like MatIS is now.</p>
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Do you mean assembling the matrix on preselected vertices during MatAssemblyBegin/End? Note that this will imply that standard Neumann-Neumann methods will not work (they need the unassembled matrix to solve for the local Schur complements).</blockquote>
</div></div><br><div>I'm not too concerned about that since I consider the classic N-N and original FETI methods to be rather special-purpose compared to the newer generation. I would like to limit the number of copies of a matrix to control peak memory usage.</div>
</blockquote></div><br>Duplicate vertices don't concur so much to memory usage as faces and edge nodes do, so why limit your matrix class? In principle the new class should handle _every_ nonoverlapping method, either belonging to the old or the new generation.<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Stefano<br>
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