Spectral element methods for boundary-value problems of functional differential equations

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Main Authors: andò, Alessia, Sieber, Jan
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author andò, Alessia
Sieber, Jan
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Sieber, Jan
contents We prove convergence of the spectral element method for piecewise polynomial collocation applied to periodic boundary value problems for functional differential equations. In particular, we prove that the numerical collocation solution approximates the true solution with accuracy of order $\mathrm{e}^{-ηm}$ for some $η>0$ and increasing degree $m$ of the polynomials for a case that is common in applications: differential equations where the right-hand side depends on a finite number of delayed arguments with parametric delays and real analytic coefficients. For state-dependent delays the spectral element method also converges under mild regularity assumptions, but the geometric convergence of the collocation solution depends on the properties of the true solution, which may in general not be real analytic even for analytic coefficients. However, in those cases the convergence rate is still higher than all finite orders.
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spellingShingle Spectral element methods for boundary-value problems of functional differential equations
andò, Alessia
Sieber, Jan
Numerical Analysis
65L03, 65L10, 65L20, 65L60
We prove convergence of the spectral element method for piecewise polynomial collocation applied to periodic boundary value problems for functional differential equations. In particular, we prove that the numerical collocation solution approximates the true solution with accuracy of order $\mathrm{e}^{-ηm}$ for some $η>0$ and increasing degree $m$ of the polynomials for a case that is common in applications: differential equations where the right-hand side depends on a finite number of delayed arguments with parametric delays and real analytic coefficients. For state-dependent delays the spectral element method also converges under mild regularity assumptions, but the geometric convergence of the collocation solution depends on the properties of the true solution, which may in general not be real analytic even for analytic coefficients. However, in those cases the convergence rate is still higher than all finite orders.
title Spectral element methods for boundary-value problems of functional differential equations
topic Numerical Analysis
65L03, 65L10, 65L20, 65L60
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20266