Analysis of the spectral symbol function for spectral approximation of a differential operator
(1908.05788)Abstract
Given a differential operator $\mathcal{L}$ along with its own eigenvalue problem $\mathcal{L}u = \lambda u$ and an associated algebraic equation $\mathcal{L}{(n)} \mathbf{u}n = \lambda\mathbf{u}n$ obtained by means of a discretization scheme (like Finite Differences, Finite Elements, Galerkin Isogeometric Analysis, etc.), the theory of Generalized Locally Toeplitz (GLT) sequences serves the purpose to compute the spectral symbol function $\omega$ associated to the discrete operator $\mathcal{L}{(n)}$ We prove that the spectral symbol $\omega$ provides a necessary condition for a discretization scheme in order to uniformly approximate the spectrum of the original differential operator $\mathcal{L}$. The condition measures how far the method is from a uniform relative approximation of the spectrum of $\mathcal{L}$. Moreover, the condition seems to become sufficient if the discretization method is paired with a suitable (non-uniform) grid and an increasing refinement of the order of approximation of the method. On the other hand, despite the numerical experiments in many recent literature, we disprove that in general a uniform sampling of the spectral symbol $\omega$ can provide an accurate relative approximation of the spectrum, neither of $\mathcal{L}$ nor of the discrete operator $\mathcal{L}{(n)}$.
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