On Padé-type model order reduction of J-Hermitian linear dynamical systems

A simple, yet powerful approach to model order reduction of large-scale linear dynamical systems is to employ projection onto block Krylov subspaces. The transfer functions of the resulting reduced-order models of such projection methods can be characterized as Padé-type approximants of the transfer function of the original large-scale system. If the original system exhibits certain symmetries, then the reduced-order models are considerably more accurate than the theory for general systems predicts. In this paper, the framework of J-Hermitian linear dynamical systems is used to establish a general result about this higher accuracy. In particular, it is shown that in the case of J-Hermitian linear dynamical systems, the reduced-order transfer functions match twice as many Taylor coefficients of the original transfer function as in the general case. An application to the SPRIM algorithm for order reduction of general RCL electrical networks is discussed.