Conforming Finite Element DIVDIV Complexes and the Application for the Linearized Einstein--Bianchi System

Abstract

This paper presents the first family of conforming finite element divdiv complexes on tetrahedral grids in three dimensions. In these complexes, finite element spaces of $H(\text{divdiv},\Omega;\mathbb{S})$ are from a current preprint [Chen and Huang, arXiv: 2007.12399, 2020] while finite element spaces of both $H(\text{symcurl},\Omega;\mathbb{T})$ and $H^1(\Omega;\mathbb{R}^3)$ are newly constructed here. It is proved that these finite element complexes are exact. As a result, they can be used to discretize the linearized Einstein-Bianchi system within the dual formulation.