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A new domain decomposition preconditioner is introduced for efficiently solving linear systems Ax = b with a symmetric positive definite matrix A. The particularity of the new preconditioner is that it is not necessary to have access to the…
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In this work, we exploit the capability of virtual element methods in accommodating approximation spaces featuring high-order continuity to numerically approximate differential problems of the form $\Delta^p u =f$, $p\ge1$. More…
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