\(n\)-widths and singularly perturbed boundary value problems. II (Q2719230)

Let \(Q= (0, 1)\times (0,1)\) be the unit square with boundary \(\Gamma\). Let \(\Gamma_E\) denote the intersection of \(\Gamma \) with the line \(x=1\). In this paper the authors continue their investigations [SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 34, 1808--1816 (1998; Zbl 0884.41017); ibid. 36, 1604--1620 (1999; Zbl 0974.41018)] of the approximability of solutions of singularly perturbed differential equations and consider two elliptic singularly perturbed convection-diffusion problems NEWLINE\[NEWLINELu := -\epsilon \Delta u+u_x+u=f \;\;in \;\;Q, \;\;\;u=0 \;\;on \;\;\Gamma NEWLINE\]NEWLINE and NEWLINE\[NEWLINELv = f \;\;in \;\;Q, \;\;\;v=0 \;\;on \;\;\Gamma \setminus\Gamma_E, \;\;\;v_x=0 \;\;on \;\;\Gamma_E,NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where parameter \(\epsilon \in (0,1]\), and \(f\in L_2(Q)\). The solution operators \(A_1: f\to u\) and \(A_2: f\to v\) are well-defined, bounded maps from \(L_2(Q)\) to the Sobolev space \(H^1(Q)\). Let \(d_{n,l}(\epsilon )=d_n(A_l(B), L_2(Q))\), \(l=1,2\), denote the Kolmogorov \(n\)-widths, where \(B\) is the unit ball in \(L_2(Q)\). The following main result (Theorem 1.1) is proved: Let \(n\) be a positive integer. There are positive constants \(C_1\) and \(C_2\), which are independent of \(\epsilon \) and \(n\), such that for \(l=1,2\), the \(n\)-widths satisfy \(C_1(\epsilon n)^{-1}\leq d_{n,l}(\epsilon )\leq C_2(\epsilon n)^{-1}\) if \(\epsilon^2n\geq 1\), and \(C_1 (1+\epsilon^{1/3}n^{2/3})^{-1}\leq d_{n,l}(\epsilon )\leq C_2 (1+\epsilon^{1/3}n^{2/3})^{-1}\) if \(\epsilon ^2n\leq 1\).