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The energy technique for the six-step BDF method

Numerical Analysis 2020-07-20 v1 Numerical Analysis

Abstract

In combination with the Grenander--Szeg\"o theorem, we observe that a relaxed positivity condition on multipliers, milder than the basic %fundamental requirement of the Nevanlinna--Odeh multipliers that the sum of the absolute values of their components is strictly less than 11, makes the energy technique applicable to the stability analysis of BDF methods for parabolic equations with selfadjoint elliptic part. This is particularly useful for the six-step BDF method for which no Nevanlinna--Odeh multiplier exists. We introduce multipliers satisfying the positivity property for the six-step BDF method and establish stability of the method for parabolic equations.

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@article{arxiv.2007.08924,
  title  = {The energy technique for the six-step BDF method},
  author = {Georgios Akrivis and Minghua Chen and Fan Yu and Zhi Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.08924},
  year   = {2020}
}

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15 pages

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