Preconditioning \(C^ 1\) Lagrange polynomial spline collocation method of elliptic equations by finite element method. (Q1855861)

The authors study a preconditioning polynomial spline collocation method for an elliptic differential equation by a finite element stiffness matrix. It is shown that the decay rate of the \(C^1\) Lagrange polynomial spline increases with increasing degree. Also it is shown that the distribution of eigenvalues for the established preconditioning system is well bounded in terms of the number of unknowns for a fixed degree of polynomial spline approximation.