docs for MINRES, only for positive definite?

Matthew Knepley knepley at gmail.com
Thu Feb 28 09:32:25 CST 2008


Docs are wrong.

  Matt

2008/2/28 Lisandro Dalcin <dalcinl at gmail.com>:
> I've noticed that the docs for MINRES say that the operator and the
>  preconditioner must be POSITIVE DEFINITE. But I understand MINRES is
>  tailored for the symmetric/hermitian-indefinite case.
>
>  Are the docs wrong? Or the actual code is a (very peculiar) MINRES variant?
>
>
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