Preconditioning rectangular spectral collocation

Abstract: Rectangular spectral collocation (RSC) methods have recently been proposed to solve linear and nonlinear differential equations with general boundary conditions and/or other constraints. The involved linear systems in RSC become extremely ill-conditioned as the number of collocation points increases. By introducing suitable Birkhoff-type interpolation problems, we present pseudospectral integration preconditioning matrices for the ill-conditioned linear systems in RSC. The condition numbers of the preconditioned linear systems are independent of the number of collocation points. Numerical examples are given.