
Eigenvalue Bounds 143
9.6.5 The Simultaneous DROP Algorithm
Corollary 9.14 Let 0 <w
i
≤ 1,
α
i
= w
i
ν
−2
i
= w
i
J
j=1
|A
ij
|
2
−1
and β
j
= s
−1
j
,foreachi and j. Then the simultaneous algorithm with the
iterative step
x
k
j
= x
k−1
j
+ λ
k
I
i=1
w
i
A
ij
(b
i
− (Ax
k−1
)
i
)
s
j
ν
2
i
, (9.43)
converges to the minimizer of the function
I
i=1
w
i
(b
i
− (Ax)
i
)
ν
i
2
for which the function
J
j=1
s
j
|x
j
− x
0
j
|
2
is minimized.
For w
i
= 1, this is the CARP1 algorithm of [135] (see also [88, 89]). The
simultaneous DROP algorithm of [84] requires only that the weights w
i
be
positive, but dividing each w
i
by their maximum, max
i
{w
i
}, while multiply-
ing each λ
k
by the same maximum, gives weights in the in