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Fractional vector calculus is the building block of the fractional partial differential equations that model non-local or long-range phenomena, e.g., anomalous diffusion, fractional electromagnetism, and fractional advection-dispersion. In…

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Geometric particle-in-cell discretizations have been derived based on a discretization of the fields that is conforming with the de Rham structure of the Maxwell's equation and a standard particle-in-cell ansatz for the fields by deriving…

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We construct a monomorphism of the De Rham complex of scalar multivalued meromorphic forms on the projective line, holomorphic on the complement to a finite set of points, to the chain complex of the Lie algebra of $sl_2$-valued algebraic…

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In this paper we discuss a framework for the polynomial approximation to the solution of initial value problems for differential equations. The framework, initially devised for the approximation of ordinary differential equations, is…

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We focus our attention on the de Rham operators' underlying properties which are specified by intrinsic effects of differential geometry structures. And then we apply the procedure of regularization in the context of Lipschitz version of de…

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We present a framework for the structure-preserving approximation of partial differential equations on mapped multipatch domains, extending the classical theory of finite element exterior calculus (FEEC) to discrete de Rham sequences which…

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In this second part of our series of papers, we develop an abstract framework suitable for de Rham complexes that depend on a parameter belonging to an arbitrary Banach space. Our primary focus is on spectral perturbation problems and the…

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In this paper we prove the discrete compactness property for a wide class of p-version finite element approximations of non-elliptic variational eigenvalue problems in two and three space dimensions. In a very general framework, we find…

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