A unifying theory of a posteriori error control for discontinuous Galerkin FEM (Q1027741)

The paper presents a unified a posteriori error analysis for a wide range of discontinuous Galerkin (dG) finite element methods (FEM) applied to the Laplace, Stokes and Lamé equations. To this aim, the authors identify two key properties all relevant consistent and inconsistenr dG methods share. The key properties guarantee the reliability of explicit residual-based computable error estimators. The edge jumps are recast via lifting operators to make arguments already established for nonconforming finite element methods available. The resulting reliable error estimate is applied to representative dG FEMs. The estimate recovers known results and provides new bounds to a number of schemes.