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<H2><A NAME="SECTION00062000000000000000"></A><A NAME="sec:aggregation"></A>
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Smoothed Aggregation
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In order to define the restriction operator <IMG
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ALT="$R_C$">, which is used to compute
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the coarse-level matrix <IMG
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ALT="$A_C$">, MLD2P4 uses the <I>smoothed aggregation</I>
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algorithm described in [<A
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HREF="node24.html#BREZINA_VANEK">1</A>,<A
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HREF="node24.html#VANEK_MANDEL_BREZINA">24</A>].
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The basic idea of this algorithm is to build a coarse set of vertices
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ALT="$W_C$"> by suitably grouping the vertices of <IMG
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ALT="$W$"> into disjoint subsets
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(aggregates), and to define the coarse-to-fine space transfer operator <IMG
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ALT="$R_C^T$"> by
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applying a suitable smoother to a simple piecewise constant
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prolongation operator, to improve the quality of the coarse-space correction.
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Three main steps can be identified in the smoothed aggregation procedure:
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<OL>
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<LI>coarsening of the vertex set <IMG
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ALT="$W$">, to obtain <IMG
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ALT="$W_C$">;
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<LI>construction of the prolongator <IMG
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ALT="$R_C^T$">;
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ALT="$R_C$"> and <IMG
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ALT="$R_C^T$"> to build <IMG
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To perform the coarsening step, we have implemented the aggregation algorithm sketched
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in [<A
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HREF="node24.html#apnum_07">4</A>]. According to [<A
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this algorithm has been actually considered,
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in which each aggregate <IMG
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for a given <!-- MATH
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it has been chosen, where each processor <IMG
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i.e. near vertices adjacent to vertices in other processors, and is strongly
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since it has been shown to produce good results in practice
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