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Numerical integration of the stiffness matrix in higher order finite element (FE) methods is recognized as one of the heaviest computational tasks in a FE solver. The problem becomes even more relevant when computing the Gram matrix in the algorithm of the Discontinuous Petrov Galerkin (DPG) FE methodology. Making use of 3D tensor-product shape functions, and the concept of sum factorization, known from standard high order FE and spectral methods, here we take advantage of this idea for the entire exact sequence of FE spaces defined on the hexahedron. The key piece to the presented algorithms is the exact sequence for the one-dimensional element, and use of hierarchical shape functions. Consistent with existing results, the presented algorithms for the integration of $H^1$, $H(text{curl})$, $H(text{div})$, and $L^2$ inner products, have the $O(p^7)$ computational complexity. Additionally, a modified version of the algorithms is proposed when the element map can be simplified, resulting in the reduced $O(p^6)$ complexity. Use of Legendre polynomials for shape functions is critical in this implementation. Computational experiments performed with $H^1$, $H(text{div})$ and $H(text{curl})$ test shape functions show good correspondence with the expected rates.
Many standard conversion matrices between coefficients in classical orthogonal polynomial expansions can be decomposed using diagonally-scaled Hadamard products involving Toeplitz and Hankel matrices. This allows us to derive $smash{mathcal{O}(N(log N)^2)}$ algorithms, based on the fast Fourier transform, for converting coefficients of a degree $N$ polynomial in one polynomial basis to coefficients in another. Numerical results show that this approach is competitive with state-of-the-art techniques, requires no precomputational cost, can be implemented in a handful of lines of code, and is easily adapted to extended precision arithmetic.
We introduce a cousin of the DPG method - the DPG* method - discuss their relationship and compare the two methods through numerical experiments.
This article introduces the DPG-star (from now on, denoted DPG$^*$) finite element method. It is a method that is in some sense dual to the discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin (DPG) method. The DPG methodology can be viewed as a means to solve an overdetermined discretization of a boundary value problem. In the same vein, the DPG$^*$ methodology is a means to solve an underdetermined discretization. These two viewpoints are developed by embedding the same operator equation into two different saddle-point problems. The analyses of the two problems have many common elements. Comparison to other methods in the literature round out the newly garnered perspective. Notably, DPG$^*$ and DPG methods can be seen as generalizations of $mathcal{L}mathcal{L}^ast$ and least-squares methods, respectively. A priori error analysis and a posteriori error control for the DPG$^*$ method are considered in detail. Reports of several numerical experiments are provided which demonstrate the essential features of the new method. A notable difference between the results from the DPG$^*$ and DPG analyses is that the convergence rates of the former are limited by the regularity of an extraneous Lagrange multiplier variable.
We develop two fast algorithms for Hessenberg reduction of a structured matrix $A = D + UV^H$ where $D$ is a real or unitary $n times n$ diagonal matrix and $U, V inmathbb{C}^{n times k}$. The proposed algorithm for the real case exploits a two--stage approach by first reducing the matrix to a generalized Hessenberg form and then completing the reduction by annihilation of the unwanted sub-diagonals. It is shown that the novel method requires $O(n^2k)$ arithmetic operations and it is significantly faster than other reduction algorithms for rank structured matrices. The method is then extended to the unitary plus low rank case by using a block analogue of the CMV form of unitary matrices. It is shown that a block Lanczos-type procedure for the block tridiagonalization of $Re(D)$ induces a structured reduction on $A$ in a block staircase CMV--type shape. Then, we present a numerically stable method for performing this reduction using unitary transformations and we show how to generalize the sub-diagonal elimination to this shape, while still being able to provide a condensed representation for the reduced matrix. In this way the complexity still remains linear in $k$ and, moreover, the resulting algorithm can be adapted to deal efficiently with block companion matrices.
We analyze a non-conforming DPG method with discontinuous trace approximation for the Poisson problem in two and three space dimensions. We show its well-posedness and quasi-optimal convergence in the principal unknown. Numerical experiments confirming the theory have been presented previously.