Systems of consistent linear equations with symmetric positive semidefinite matrices arise naturally while solving many scientific and engineering problems. In case of a "floating" static structure, the boundary conditions are not sufficient to prevent its rigid body motions. Traditional solvers based on Cholesky decomposition can be adapted to these systems by recognition of zero rows or columns and also by setting up a well conditioned regular submatrix of the problem that is used for implementation of a generalised inverse. Conditioning such a submatrix seems to be related with detection of so called fixing nodes such that the related boundary conditions make the structure as stiff as possible. We can consider the matrix of the problem as an unweighted non-oriented graph. Now we search for nodes that stabilize the solution well-fixing nodes (such nodes are sufficiently far away from each other and are not placed near any straight line). The set of such nodes corresponds to one type of graph center.
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title = {Graph centers used for stabilization of matrix factorizations},
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year = {2010},
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Pavla Kabelíková. Graph centers used for stabilization of matrix factorizations. Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory, Tome 30 (2010) pp. 249-259. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/bwmeta1.element.bwnjournal-article-doi-10_7151_dmgt_1498/
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