Contraction and optimality properties of an adaptive Legendre-Galerkin method: the multi-dimensional case (Q2355484)

The present paper constructs an approximate method to solve the Dirichlet problem for the elliptic equation in \(\Omega =[0,1]^{2}\) \[ -\nabla (\nu \nabla u)+ \sigma u = f \quad \text{in} \quad \Omega, \quad u= 0 \quad \text{on} \quad\partial \Omega , \] where \( \nu, \sigma \) are sufficiently smooth coefficients, \( f\in H^{-1}(\Omega)\). For this problem formulated in variational form \[ a(u,v) = (f,v) \quad\forall v\in H_{0}^{1}(\Omega), \] the Galerkin method is applied, using the system of basis functions of Babuška-Shen \(\eta_{k}(x)\), whose elements are defined by the system of Legendre polynomials. The obtained approximate solutions have the contraction property.