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In this paper we provide some error estimates for the div least-squares finite element method on elliptic problems. The main contribution is presenting a complete error analysis, which improves the current \emph{state-of-the-art} results.…

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Semi-infinite programming can be used to model a large variety of complex optimization problems. The simple description of such problems comes at a price: semi-infinite problems are often harder to solve than finite nonlinear problems. In…

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