On the occurrence of superlinear convergence of exact and inexact Krylov subspace methods

We present a general analytical model which describes the superlinear convergence of Krylov subspace methods. We take an invariant subspace approach, so that our results apply also to inexact methods, and to non-diagonalizable matrices. Thus, we provide a unified treatment of the superlinear convergence of GMRES, Conjugate Gradients, block versions of these, and inexact subspace methods. Numerical experiments illustrate the bounds obtained