Regularity and convergence analysis in Sobolev and Hölder spaces for generalized Whittle-Matérn fields

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Abstract: We analyze several Galerkin approximations of a Gaussian random field mathcalZcolonmathcalDimesOmegaomathbbR indexed by a Euclidean domain mathcalDsubsetmathbbRd whose covariance structure is determined by a negative fractional power of a second-order elliptic differential operator L:=ablacdot(Aabla)+kappa2. Under minimal assumptions on the domain mathcalD, the coefficients AcolonmathcalDomathbbRdimesd, kappacolonmathcalDomathbbR, and the fractional exponent , we prove convergence in Lq(Omega;Hsigma(mathcalD)) and in Lq(Omega;Cdelta(overlinemathcalD)) at (essentially) optimal rates for (i) spectral Galerkin methods and (ii) finite element approximations. Specifically, our analysis is solely based on H1+alpha(mathcalD)-regularity of the differential operator L, where 0<alphaleq1. For this setting, we furthermore provide rigorous estimates for the error in the covariance function of these approximations in Linfty(mathcalDimesmathcalD) and in the mixed Sobolev space Hsigma,sigma(mathcalDimesmathcalD), showing convergence which is more than twice as fast compared to the corresponding Lq(Omega;Hsigma(mathcalD))-rate. For the well-known example of such Gaussian random fields, the original Whittle-Mat'ern class, where L=Delta+kappa2 and kappaequivoperatornameconst., we perform several numerical experiments which validate our theoretical results.



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