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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…

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In this article, we present a parallel recursive algorithm based on multi-level domain decomposition that can be used as a precondtioner to a Krylov subspace method to solve sparse linear systems of equations arising from the discretization…

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