A wider convergence area for the MSTMAOR iteration methods for LCP.

In order to solve large sparse linear complementarity problems on parallel multiprocessor systems, modulus-based synchronous two-stage multisplitting iteration methods based on two-stage multisplittings of the system matrices were constructed and investigated by Bai and Zhang (Numer. Algoritm. 62, 59-77 ). These iteration methods include the multisplitting relaxation methods such as Jacobi, Gauss-Seidel, SOR and AOR of the modulus type as special cases. In the same paper the convergence theory of these methods is developed, under the following assumptions: (i) the system matrix is an H-matrix and (ii) one acceleration parameter is greater than the other. Here we show that the second assumption can be avoided, thus enabling us to obtain an improved convergence area. The result is obtained using the similar technique proposed by Cvetković and Kostić (Numer. Linear Algebra Appl. 21, 534-539 ), and its usage is demonstrated by an example of the LCP. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]