id: 06063169 dt: j an: 06063169 au: Pang, Hong-Kui; Zhang, Ying-Ying; Jin, Xiao-Qing ti: Tri-diagonal preconditioner for pricing options. so: J. Comput. Appl. Math. 236, No. 17, 4365-4374 (2012). py: 2012 pu: Elsevier Science B.V. (North-Holland), Amsterdam la: EN cc: ut: European call option; partial integro-differential equation; nonsymmetric Toeplitz system; normalized preconditioned system; tri-diagonal preconditioner; family of generating functions ci: li: doi:10.1016/j.cam.2012.04.003 ab: Summary: The value of a contingent claim under a jump-diffusion process satisfies a partial integro-differential equation (PIDE). We localize and discretize this PIDE in space by the central difference formula and in time by the second order backward differentiation formula. The resulting system $T_n\bold {x}= \bold {b}$ in general is a nonsymmetric Toeplitz system. We then solve this system by the normalized preconditioned conjugate gradient method. A tri-diagonal preconditioner $L_{n}$ is considered. We prove that under certain conditions all the eigenvalues of the normalized preconditioned matrix $(L_n^{-1}T_n)^{\ast}(L_n^{-1}T_n)$ are clustered around one, which implies a superlinear convergence rate. Numerical results exemplify our theoretical analysis. rv: