Wavelet approximation in weighted Sobolev spaces of mixed order with applications to the electronic Schrödinger equation (Q431155)

The approximation of functions in weighted Sobolev spaces of mixed order by anisotropic tensor products of biorthogonal, compactly supported wavelets is studied. As a main result, these spaces are characterized in terms of wavelet coefficients, which also enables to explicitly construct approximations. In particular, approximation rates for functions in exponentially weighted Sobolev spaces discretized on optimized general sparse grids are derived. Under certain regularity assumptions, the rate of convergence is independent of the number of dimensions. These results are applied to the electronic Schrödinger equation and it is possible to obtain a convergence rate which is independent of the number of electrons; numerical results for the helium atom are presented.