Discontinuous Galerkin methods for the Laplace-Beltrami operator on point cloud

Abstract

This paper is dedicated to the development of numerical analysis for high-order methods solving partial differential equations on scattered point clouds. We build a novel geometric error analysis framework by estimating the error in the approximation of the Riemann metric tensor. The innovative framework serves as a fundamental tool for analyzing discontinuous Galerkin methods applied to the Laplace-Beltrami operator on possibly discontinuous geometry. We provide numerical examples on patchy surfaces reconstructed from point clouds to support our theoretical findings.