Hierarchical Riesz bases for Hs(Omega), 1 < s < 5/2

Davydov, Oleg and Stevenson, Rob (2005) Hierarchical Riesz bases for Hs(Omega), 1 < s < 5/2. Constructive Approximation, 22 (3). pp. 365-394. ISSN 0176-4276 (https://doi.org/10.1007/s00365-004-0593-2)

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Abstract

On arbitrary polygonal domains $Omega subset RR^2$, we construct $C^1$ hierarchical Riesz bases for Sobolev spaces $H^s(Omega)$. In contrast to an earlier construction by Dahmen, Oswald, and Shi (1994), our bases will be of Lagrange instead of Hermite type, by which we extend the range of stability from $s in (2,frac{5}{2})$ to $s in (1,frac{5}{2})$. Since the latter range includes $s=2$, with respect to the present basis, the stiffness matrices of fourth-order elliptic problems are uniformly well-conditioned.