A polygonal discontinuous Galerkin method with minus one stabilization

Abstract

We propose a discontinuous Galerkin method for the Poisson equation on polygonal tessellations in two dimensions, stabilized by penalizing, locally in each elementK, a residual term involving the fluxes, measured in the norm of the dual ofH1(K). The scalar product corresponding to such a norm is numerically realizedviathe introduction of a (minimal) auxiliary space inspired by the Virtual Element Method. Stability and optimal error estimates in the brokenH1norm are proven under a weak shape regularity assumption allowing the presence of very small edges. The results of numerical tests confirm the theoretical estimates.