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We consider the problem of domain approximation in finite element methods for Maxwell equations on curved domains, i.e., when affine or polynomial meshes fail to exactly cover the domain of interest. In such cases, one is forced to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-05 Rubén Aylwin , Carlos Jerez-Hanckes

In this paper, the first family of conforming finite element divdiv complexes on cuboid grids in three dimensions is constructed. Besides, a new family of conforming finite element divdiv complexes with enhanced smoothness on tetrahedral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Jun Hu , Yizhou Liang , Rui Ma , Min Zhang

For the Dirichlet integral fractional Laplacian, we prove root exponential convergence of tensor-product $hp$-finite element approximations on $(0,1)^3$, for forcing $f$ that is analytic in $[0,1]^3$. Exploiting analytic regularity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-16 Björn Bahr , Markus Faustmann , Carlo Marcati , Jens Markus Melenk , Christoph Schwab

We introduce a family of proximal discontinuous Galerkin methods for variational inequalities, focusing on the obstacle problem as a didactic example. Each member of this family is born from applying a different well-known nonconforming…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Alexandre Ern , Brendan Keith , Dohyun Kim , Rami Masri , Beatrice Riviere

In this article, using the weighted discrete least-squares, we propose a patch reconstruction finite element space with only one degree of freedom per element. As the approximation space, it is applied to the discontinuous Galerkin methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Di Yang , Yinnian He

We leverage the proximal Galerkin algorithm (Keith and Surowiec, Foundations of Computational Mathematics, 2024, DOI: 10.1007/s10208-024-09681-8), a recently introduced mesh-independent algorithm, to obtain a high-order finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Ioannis P. A. Papadopoulos

We consider finite element methods of multiscale type to approximate solutions for two-dimensional symmetric elliptic partial differential equations with heterogeneous $L^\infty$ coefficients. The methods are of Galerkin type and follow the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Alexandre L. Madureira , Marcus Sarkis

We consider the discretization of the $p$-Laplacian equation with an interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin method. We prove novel trace-type inverse estimates, leading to unconditional stability of the method. Further, $hp$-version a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Emmanuil H. Georgoulis , Panagiotis Paraschis

We give the first differentially private algorithms that estimate a variety of geometric features of points in the Euclidean space, such as diameter, width, volume of convex hull, min-bounding box, min-enclosing ball etc. Our work relies…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Yue Gao , Or Sheffet

We consider finite element approximations of the Maxwell eigenvalue problem in two dimensions. We prove, in certain settings, convergence of the discrete eigenvalues using Lagrange finite elements. In particular, we prove convergence in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-17 Daniele Boffi , Johnny Guzman , Michael Neilan

We construct H(curl) and H(div) conforming finite elements on convex polygons and polyhedra with minimal possible degrees of freedom, i.e., the number of degrees of freedom is equal to the number of edges or faces of the polygon/polyhedron.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-06 Wenbin Chen , Yanqiu Wang

We review the stability properties of several discretizations of the Helmholtz equation at large wavenumbers. For a model problem in a polygon, a complete $k$-explicit stability (including $k$-explicit stability of the continuous problem)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-31 Sofi Esterhazy , Jens Markus Melenk

We prove that for compactly perturbed elliptic problems, where the corresponding bilinear form satisfies a Garding inequality, adaptive mesh-refinement is capable of overcoming the preasymptotic behavior and eventually leads to convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-30 Alex Bespalov , Alexander Haberl , Dirk Praetorius

A family of conforming virtual element Hessian complexes on tetrahedral meshes are constructed based on decompositions of polynomial tensor spaces. They are applied to discretize the linearized time-independent Einstein-Bianchi system with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-10 Long Chen , Xuehai Huang

The proximal Galerkin finite element method is a high-order, low-iteration complexity, nonlinear numerical method that preserves the geometric and algebraic structure of point-wise bound constraints in infinite-dimensional function spaces.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-18 Brendan Keith , Thomas M. Surowiec

In this paper we present a first supercloseness analysis for higher-order Galerkin FEM applied to a singularly perturbed convection-diffusion problem. Using a solution decomposition and a special representation of our finite element space…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-07-30 S. Franz , H. -G. Roos

This paper introduces some inverse sequences of different polyhedra all based on finite approximations of a compact metric space so they can be used to capture the shape type of the original space. It is shown that they are HPol-expansions,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-10-25 Diego Mondéjar

This paper presents an $hp$ a posteriori error analysis for the 2D Helmholtz equation that is robust in the polynomial degree $p$ and the wave number $k$. For the discretization, we consider a discontinuous Galerkin formulation that is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-31 Scott Congreve , Joscha Gedicke , Ilaria Perugia

For linear parabolic initial-boundary value problems with self-adjoint, time-homogeneous elliptic spatial operator in divergence form with Lipschitz-continuous coefficients, and for incompatible, time-analytic forcing term in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-23 Ilaria Perugia , Christoph Schwab , Marco Zank

This paper considers weak Galerkin finite element approximations for a quasistatic Maxwell viscoelastic model. The spatial discretization uses piecewise polynomials of degree $k \ (k\geq 1)$ for the stress approximation, degree $k+1$ for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Jihong Xiao , Zimo Zhu , Xiaoping Xie