Title
Local Energy Estimates For The Fractional Laplacian
Abstract
The integral fractional Laplacian of order s is an element of(0, 1) is a nonlocal operator. It is known that solutions to the Dirichlet problem involving such an operator exhibit an algebraic boundary singularity regardless of the domain regularity. This, in turn, deteriorates the global regularity of solutions and as a result the global convergence rate of the numerical solutions. For finite element discretizations, we derive local error estimates in the H-s-seminorm and show optimal convergence rates in the interior of the domain by only assuming meshes to be shape-regular. These estimates quantify the fact that the reduced approximation error is concentrated near the boundary of the domain. We illustrate our theoretical results with several numerical examples.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1137/20M1335509
SIAM JOURNAL ON NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
finite elements, error estimates, interior error estimates, fractional Laplacian
Journal
59
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
0036-1429
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Borthagaray Juan Pablo100.34
Leykekhman Dmitriy200.34
Ricardo H. Nochetto3907110.08