We introduce the Virtual Element Method (VEM) for elliptic eigenvalue problems. The main result of the paper states that VEM provides an optimal order approximation of the eigenmodes. A wide set of numerical tests confirm the theoretical analysis.
@article{arxiv.1610.03675,
title = {Virtual Element Method for Second Order Elliptic Eigenvalue Problems},
author = {Francesca Gardini and Giuseppe Vacca},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.03675},
year = {2017}
}