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Legendre-Fenchel duality and a generalized constitutive relation error

Numerical Analysis 2016-11-18 v1

Abstract

A generalized constitutive relation error is proposed in an analogous form to Fenchel-Young inequality on the basis of the key idea of Legendre-Fenchel duality theory. The generalized constitutive relation error is linked with the global errors of some admissible solutions for the problem in question, and is of wide applicability, especially in a posteriori error estimations of numerical methods. A class of elliptic variational inequalities is examined using the proposed approach and a strict upper bound of global energy errors of admissible solutions is obtained.

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@article{arxiv.1611.05589,
  title  = {Legendre-Fenchel duality and a generalized constitutive relation error},
  author = {Mengwu Guo and Weimin Han and Hongzhi Zhong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.05589},
  year   = {2016}
}

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17 pages; submitted to peer-reviewed journal

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