The condition number of the Schur complement in domain decomposition (Q1805999)

It is shown that for elliptic boundary value problems of order \(2m\) the condition number of the Schur complement matrix that appears in nonoverlapping domain decomposition methods is of order \(d^{-1}h^{-2m+1}\), where \(d\) measures the diameters of the subdomains and \(h\) is the mesh size of the triangulation. The result holds for both conforming and nonconforming finite elements.