A counterexample concerning the L2-projector onto linear spline spaces
Abstract
For the L2-orthogonal projector P onto spaces of linear splines over simplicial partitions of polyhedral domains in Rd, d>1, we show that the Linfty norm of P cannot be bounded uniformly with respect to the partition. This is in contrast to d=1, where these norms are bounded by 3 independently of the partition. This negative result is folklore among specialists in finite element methods and approximation theory but seemingly has never been formally proved.
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