Quasi-monotonicity and Robust Localization with Continuous Piecewise Polynomials

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Authors Francesca Tantardini, Rüdiger Verfürth

Publication date 17 May 2021

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multidimensional problems (41A63) Interpolation in approximation theory (41A05) Spline approximation (41A15) Error bounds for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N15) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30)

Abstract: We consider the energy norm arising from elliptic problems with discontinuous piecewise constant diffusion. We prove that under the quasi-monotonicity property on the diffusion coefficient, the best approximation error with continuous piecewise polynomials is equivalent to the $el{l}_2$-sum of best errors on elements, in the spirit of A. Veeser for the $H^1$-seminorm. If the quasi-monotonicity is violated, counterexamples show that a robust localization does not hold in general, neither on elements, nor on pairs of adjacent elements, nor on stars of elements sharing a common vertex.

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