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A PDE approach to fractional diffusion: a posteriori error analysis

Numerical Analysis 2015-05-20 v2

Abstract

We derive a computable a posteriori error estimator for the α\alpha-harmonic extension problem, which localizes the fractional powers of elliptic operators supplemented with Dirichlet boundary conditions. Our a posteriori error estimator relies on the solution of small discrete problems on anisotropic cylindrical stars. It exhibits built-in flux equilibration and is equivalent to the energy error up to data oscillation, under suitable assumptions. We design a simple adaptive algorithm and present numerical experiments which reveal a competitive performance.

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@article{arxiv.1406.2281,
  title  = {A PDE approach to fractional diffusion: a posteriori error analysis},
  author = {Long Chen and Ricardo H. Nochetto and Enrique Otárola and Abner J. Salgado},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.2281},
  year   = {2015}
}
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