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A novel energy-conservation Crank-Nicolson finite element method for generalized Klein-Gordon-Zakharov equations

Numerical Analysis 2026-05-13 v1 Numerical Analysis

Abstract

This article focuses on an energy-conservation Galerkin finite element method (FEM) for the generalized Klein-Gordon-Zakharov (KGZ) equations. This method combines the bilinear finite element method for spatial discretization with the Crank-Nicolson (CN) scheme for temporal discretization, thereby guaranteeing exact conservation of the discrete energy functional. A rigorous theoretical analysis is devoted to deriving error bounds for the fast-time-scale electronic field uu and the ion density deviation φ\varphi. By systematically integrating interpolation estimates, Ritz projection, and a postprocessing technique, the superclose error estimates and global superconvergence are established for uu in the H1H^1-norm, even under weakened regularity assumptions on the exact solution. Concurrently, we prove H1H^1-norm superconvergence for the auxiliary variable ϕ\phi (Δϕ=φt-\Delta\phi = \varphi_t) and optimal-order L2L^2-norm error estimates for the auxiliary variable pp (p=utp=u_t) and φ\varphi. Numerical examples are provided to confirm theoretical results.

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@article{arxiv.2605.11686,
  title  = {A novel energy-conservation Crank-Nicolson finite element method for generalized Klein-Gordon-Zakharov equations},
  author = {Xuemiao Xu and Maosheng Jiang and Jiansong Zhang and Jiang Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.11686},
  year   = {2026}
}

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20 pages, 10 figures