The Ritz and harmonic Ritz values are approximate eigenvalues, which can be
computed cheaply within the FOM and GMRES Krylov subspace iterative method
s for solving non-symmetric linear systems. They are also the zeros of the
residual polynomials of FOM and GMRES, respectively. In this paper we show
that the Walker-Zhou interpretation of GMRES enables us to formulate the re
lation between the harmonic Ritz values and GMRES in the same way as the re
lation between the Ritz values and FOM. We present an upper bound for the n
orm of the difference between the matrices from which the Ritz and harmonic
Ritz values are computed. The differences between the Ritz and harmonic Ri
tz values enable us to describe the breakdown of FOM and stagnation of GMRE
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