The Linearization Method for the Numerical Analysis of Finite Element Solutions to Quasi-linear Elliptic Partial Differential Equations (Q4509682)

The paper is devoted to theoretical aspects of the linearization procedure for quasi-linear elliptic problems which include differentiability of the original operator and boundedness and invertibility of its linearization. The author descibes the corresponding difficulties especially those that relate to finite element approximations when the linearized operator might degenerate. He suggests adaptations enabling one to avoid undesirable restrictions and consider ``multiple spaces approach'' and obtain estimates of convergence of finite element approximations for ``quasi-linear elliptic partial differential equations of a fairly general type''. The results seem to be interesting but the author sometimes is not very specific in explanations. For example, it is strange that he denotes the Sobolev derivaties as \(D^{|\alpha|}u\) instead of the standard \(D^{\alpha}u\) and writes about partitions of the domain instead of its closure.