Proximal Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Variational Inequalities

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Autori principali: Ern, Alexandre, Keith, Brendan, Kim, Dohyun, Masri, Rami, Riviere, Beatrice
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author Ern, Alexandre
Keith, Brendan
Kim, Dohyun
Masri, Rami
Riviere, Beatrice
author_facet Ern, Alexandre
Keith, Brendan
Kim, Dohyun
Masri, Rami
Riviere, Beatrice
contents We introduce a family of proximal discontinuous Galerkin methods for variational inequalities, focusing on the obstacle problem as a didactic example. Each member of this family is born from applying a different well-known nonconforming finite element discretization to the Bregman proximal point method. We explicitly treat four examples: the symmetric interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin, the enriched Galerkin, the hybridizable interior penalty and the hybrid high-order methods. We formulate a unified analysis framework for this family of methods and prove the existence and uniqueness of solutions, energy dissipation, and error estimates for both the primal and dual variables. Remarkably, the proximal hybrid high-order method with piecewise constant cell unknowns and piecewise affine facet unknowns leads to the first higher-order convergence result for any proximal Galerkin method.
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spellingShingle Proximal Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Variational Inequalities
Ern, Alexandre
Keith, Brendan
Kim, Dohyun
Masri, Rami
Riviere, Beatrice
Numerical Analysis
35J86, 49J40, 65N30
We introduce a family of proximal discontinuous Galerkin methods for variational inequalities, focusing on the obstacle problem as a didactic example. Each member of this family is born from applying a different well-known nonconforming finite element discretization to the Bregman proximal point method. We explicitly treat four examples: the symmetric interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin, the enriched Galerkin, the hybridizable interior penalty and the hybrid high-order methods. We formulate a unified analysis framework for this family of methods and prove the existence and uniqueness of solutions, energy dissipation, and error estimates for both the primal and dual variables. Remarkably, the proximal hybrid high-order method with piecewise constant cell unknowns and piecewise affine facet unknowns leads to the first higher-order convergence result for any proximal Galerkin method.
title Proximal Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Variational Inequalities
topic Numerical Analysis
35J86, 49J40, 65N30
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19708