diff --git a/dune/solvers/common/CMakeLists.txt b/dune/solvers/common/CMakeLists.txt
index b3d3fddc796b1374246c5cf7f81d3f180e528679..5e1f8f125cd29c9124132bd76c29d45caf98478e 100644
--- a/dune/solvers/common/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/dune/solvers/common/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 install(FILES
-    arithmetic.hh
     boxconstraint.hh
     canignore.hh
     copyorreference.hh
diff --git a/dune/solvers/common/arithmetic.hh b/dune/solvers/common/arithmetic.hh
deleted file mode 100644
index 19b47860e25602d2df290d6ee50ca8ab69b10c14..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/dune/solvers/common/arithmetic.hh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-// -*- tab-width: 8; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*-
-// vi: set et ts=8 sw=4 sts=4:
-#ifndef ARITHMETIC_HH
-#define ARITHMETIC_HH
-
-#warning arithmetic.hh is deprecated, please use dune-matrix-vector instead!
-
-#include <dune/matrix-vector/axpy.hh>
-#include <dune/matrix-vector/axy.hh>
-#include <dune/matrix-vector/crossproduct.hh>
-#include <dune/matrix-vector/matrixtraits.hh>
-#include <dune/matrix-vector/promote.hh>
-#include <dune/matrix-vector/scalartraits.hh>
-#include <dune/matrix-vector/transpose.hh>
-
-namespace Arithmetic
-{
-    using Dune::MatrixVector::Promote;
-    using Dune::MatrixVector::ScalarTraits;
-    using Dune::MatrixVector::MatrixTraits;
-    using Dune::MatrixVector::Transposed;
-    using Dune::MatrixVector::addProduct;
-    using Dune::MatrixVector::subtractProduct;
-    using Dune::MatrixVector::crossProduct;
-    using Dune::MatrixVector::transpose;
-    using Dune::MatrixVector::Axy;
-    using Dune::MatrixVector::bmAxy;
-}
-
-#endif
diff --git a/dune/solvers/common/staticmatrixtools.hh b/dune/solvers/common/staticmatrixtools.hh
index 31d9c96fac920920325cc641d4ea28ec50da8267..a5f1f6f7f94cb0d4149a34afa369657cd92cc955 100644
--- a/dune/solvers/common/staticmatrixtools.hh
+++ b/dune/solvers/common/staticmatrixtools.hh
@@ -16,8 +16,6 @@
 #include <dune/matrix-vector/scalartraits.hh>
 #include <dune/matrix-vector/transformmatrix.hh>
 
-#include "arithmetic.hh"
-
 namespace StaticMatrix
 {
         // type promotion (smallest matrix that can hold the sum of two matrices *******************