On the Weyl's law for discretized elliptic operators

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Authors: Jinchao Xu, Hongxuan Zhang, Ludmil T. Zikatanov 

Publication date: 22 May 2017

Abstract: In this paper we give an estimate on the asymptotic behavior of eigenvalues of discretized elliptic boundary values problems. We first prove a simple min-max principle for selfadjoint operators on a Hilbert space. Then we show two sided bounds on the $k$-th eigenvalue of the discrete Laplacian by the $k$-th eigenvalue of the continuous Laplacian operator under the assumption that the finite element mesh is quasi-uniform. Combining this result with the well-known Weyl's law, we show that the $k$-th eigenvalue of the discretized isotropic elliptic operators, spectrally equivalent to the discretized Laplacian, is $mathcalOleft(k^{2/d}ight)$. Finally, we show how these results can be used to obtain an error estimate for finite element approximations of elliptic eigenvalue problems.

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