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Embedded Trefftz DG method for the Helmholtz equation

Numerical Analysis 2026-03-16 v1 Numerical Analysis

Abstract

We study an embedded Trefftz discontinuous Galerkin method for the Helmholtz equation. The method starts from a polynomial DG space and enforces the Trefftz property through local constraints, avoiding an explicit construction of Trefftz basis functions. For the global coupling we use a simple symmetric interior penalty DG bilinear form. Since the resulting formulation is not coercive, stability is proved by a TT-coercivity argument combined with a Schatz-type duality technique. This yields wavenumber-explicit stability, quasi-optimality, and convergence estimates in standard DG norms under an explicit mesh resolution condition.

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@article{arxiv.2603.13034,
  title  = {Embedded Trefftz DG method for the Helmholtz equation},
  author = {Paul Stocker and Igor Voulis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.13034},
  year   = {2026}
}

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32 pages, 4 figures

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