Rate optimality of AFEM with maximum marking
Abstract
For Poisson's equation, we prove optimal algebraic convergence rates for adaptive conforming finite element methods driven by standard maximum marking in arbitrary space dimension, for every marking parameter in (0,1]. Previously, instance optimality of a modified maximum marking was proved in [L. Diening, C. Kreuzer, and R. Stevenson, Instance optimality of the adaptive maximum strategy, Found. Comput. Math., 16 (2016), pp. 33--68]. The basic ingredients of our anlaysis consists of discrete reliability, discrete efficiency, overlay and closure estimates of local mesh refinement. The discrete efficiency requires a facet-interior node property of simplicial mesh refinement. The novel part of the optimality analysis is an elementary integral-sum argument that converts energy decrease into a cumulative cardinality bound of marked elements, yielding rate optimality without a contraction argument.
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BibTeX
@misc{li2026rate,
title = {{Rate optimality of AFEM with maximum marking}},
author = {Yuwen Li},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = nov,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2611.03387},
eprint = {2611.03387},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.03387},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Rate optimality of AFEM with maximum marking
AU - Yuwen Li
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/11/02
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2611.03387
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.03387
AB - For Poisson's equation, we prove optimal algebraic convergence rates for adaptive conforming finite element methods driven by standard maximum marking in arbitrary space dimension, for every marking parameter in (0,1]. Previously, instance optimality of a modified maximum marking was proved in [L. Diening, C. Kreuzer, and R. Stevenson, Instance optimality of the adaptive maximum strategy, Found. Comput. Math., 16 (2016), pp. 33--68]. The basic ingredients of our anlaysis consists of discrete reliability, discrete efficiency, overlay and closure estimates of local mesh refinement. The discrete efficiency requires a facet-interior node property of simplicial mesh refinement. The novel part of the optimality analysis is an elementary integral-sum argument that converts energy decrease into a cumulative cardinality bound of marked elements, yielding rate optimality without a contraction argument.
ER -