Localization of the Aronszajn-Slobodeckij norm and application to adaptive boundary elements methods. Part I. The two-dimensional case (Q4484853)

For a simple closed curve \(\Gamma\) and a positive, non-integer number \(s\), the norm of a function from the Sobolev space \(H^s(\Gamma)\) can be calculated either by a weighted sum of its Fourier coefficients or, equivalently, by a double integration of a certain weakly singular kernel over \(\Gamma\times\Gamma\). The paper shows that the latter (called Aronszajn-Slobodeckij norm) can be estimated from above by a sum of double integrals over \(\Gamma_\nu\times \Gamma_\nu\), where \(\Gamma= \bigcup\Gamma_\nu\) is a partition of \(\Gamma\) with small overlap zones. Based on this result, the author constructs a posteriori error indicators for the boundary element method which use only local information and which are used for adaptive grid refinement. Numerical examples confirm the theoretical results.