Rellich-type discrete compactness for some discontinuous Galerkin FEM (Q691990)

The author explains some discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods (DGFEM) for 2-D Poisson-like problems including hybrid ones. In particular, the interior penalty term and the lifting operator are introduced into the bilinear forms to assure numerical stability of the associated DGFEM. For simplicity, only symmetric bilinear forms are considered. The discrete compactness properties of Rellich type is discussed. This property will play important roles in numerical analysis of DGFEM. The main result is proved under some popular hypotheses with some observations on sufficient conditions for such hypotheses. Some related results are also reported, for which various discrete compactness properties are derived by using some reconstruction operators and from the discrete Poincaré-Friedrichs inequalities. The use of the Kolmogorov-Riesz compactness theorem is also common for such purposes. On the other hand, the method on hand utilizes approximate solutions of some auxiliary problems with regularity, and is completely within the framework of the Hilbert space methods. Still it is fairly simple and may be effective in some cases. In fact, it is analogous to the methods used for the analysis of the edge finite elements.