Methods of Solution
Because is block tridiagonal and sparse, many methods of solution have been developed to optimally solve this linear system for . Among the methods are a generalized Thomas algorithm, cyclic reduction, successive overrelaxation, and Fourier transforms. A theoretically optimal solution can also be computed using multigrid methods.
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