Quantized tensor-structured finite elements for second-order elliptic PDEs in two dimensions (Q1692304)

The authors are concerned with the tensor structured solutions to second-order linear elliptic boundary value problems in two dimensions. A dense functional background is first introduced. Namely, the authors review the tensor format for the tensor structured solution of partial differential equations, weighted Sobolev spaces and some countably normed analytic classes, uniform tensor-product partitions and the corresponding finite element (FE) spaces for functions defined on unit quadrant, etc. Then, they analyze the QTT (quantized-tensor-train) parametrization of the FE spaces in order to approximate the analytic functions with a point singularity at the origin. The main result consists in the exponential convergence of QTT-FE approximations. Two numerical experiments are carried out. In the first one the domain is an L-shaped one and in the second one the domain has a cut. In both the exponential convergence rate of QTT-FE approximation is noticed. Five appendices contain auxiliary results used along the paper.