AN ACCELERATED DEFLATION TECHNIQUE FOR LARGE SYMMETRIC GENERALIZED EIGENPROBLEMS

An accelerated optimization technique combined with a stepwise deflation procedure is presented for the efficient evaluation of a few of the smallest eigenvalues and their corresponding eigenvectors of the generalized eigenproblems. The optimization is performed on the Rayleigh quotient of the deflated matrices by the aid of a preconditioned conjugate gradient scheme with the incomplete Cholesky factorization.