Two-level non-overlapping Schwarz preconditioners for a discontinuous Galerkin approximation of the biharmonic equation (Q556028)

The authors propose and analyse two-level non-overlapping aditive and multiplicative Schwarz methods for the discontinuous Galerkin approximation of a class of fourth order elliptic partial differential equations. Based on a trace inequality and a generalized Poincaré inequality for picewise \(H^1\) functions, as well as an approximation property of picewise constant functions, the authors prove that for quasi-uniform discretizations the condition number of the system with the two level Schwarz preconditioners are of order \({\mathcal{O}}((H/h)^3)\).