On preconditioned AOR method for solving linear systems

Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the preconditioned AOR method for solving linear systems. We study two general preconditioners and propose some lower triangular, upper triangular and combination preconditioners. For $A$ being an L-matrix, a nonsingular M-matrix, an irreducible L-matrix and an irreducible nonsingular M-matrix, four types of comparison theorems are presented, respectively. They contain a general comparison result, a strict comparison result and two Stein-Rosenberg type comparison results. Our theorems include and are better than almost all known corresponding results.