THE DULMAGE-MENDELSOHN PRECONDITIONING OF DECAY CHAINS

Thomas, Gerald F. (2007) THE DULMAGE-MENDELSOHN PRECONDITIONING OF DECAY CHAINS. [Preprint]

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Abstract

The uses of the Dulmage-Mendelsohn triangularization of a radioactive decay chain's bipartite graph in the rapid computation of its pseudospectra, its exponentiation, and the numerical solution of its Bateman system of depletion equations are briefly discussed.

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Keywords:Dulmage-Mendelsohn; preconditioning; decay chain; pseudospectra; exponentiation; Bateman system
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