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Main Authors: Gande, Martin J., Liao, Si-Wei, Lu, Liu-Di
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22315
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author Gande, Martin J.
Liao, Si-Wei
Lu, Liu-Di
author_facet Gande, Martin J.
Liao, Si-Wei
Lu, Liu-Di
contents Pricing American options is more complicated than pricing European options, because they can be exercised at any time, and one thus needs to solve a linear complementarity problem instead of simply doing time stepping for computing European options. We introduce a new Schwarz modulus-based splitting method for solving such linear complementarity problems, and further accelerate them using Modified Polynomial Extrapolation, a non-linear vector sequence acceleration technique, which is very much related to Krylov methods in the linear case. Numerical experiments on a model problem show that our new solver can have close to an order of magnitude lower iteration counts than the classically used modulus-based matrix splitting technique.
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spellingShingle Schwarz Modulus Based Matrix Splittings with Minimal Polynomial Extrapolation Acceleration for linear complementarity problems arising from American option pricing
Gande, Martin J.
Liao, Si-Wei
Lu, Liu-Di
Numerical Analysis
Pricing American options is more complicated than pricing European options, because they can be exercised at any time, and one thus needs to solve a linear complementarity problem instead of simply doing time stepping for computing European options. We introduce a new Schwarz modulus-based splitting method for solving such linear complementarity problems, and further accelerate them using Modified Polynomial Extrapolation, a non-linear vector sequence acceleration technique, which is very much related to Krylov methods in the linear case. Numerical experiments on a model problem show that our new solver can have close to an order of magnitude lower iteration counts than the classically used modulus-based matrix splitting technique.
title Schwarz Modulus Based Matrix Splittings with Minimal Polynomial Extrapolation Acceleration for linear complementarity problems arising from American option pricing
topic Numerical Analysis
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22315