A-priori and a-posteriori error estimates for discontinuous Galerkin method of the Maxwell eigenvalue problem

This paper is devoted to a-priori and a-posteriori error analysis of discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for the Maxwell eigenvalue problem. The discrete compactness of DG space is proved so that the Babu & scaron;ka and Osborn spectral approximation theory can be applicable in the a-priori error analysis. Then we prove the optimal error estimates for DG eigenfunctions in mesh-dependent norm and DG eigenvalues. A special contribution of this work is to prove that the error in L 2- norm for smooth eigenfunctions is of higher order than that in mesh-dependent norm, so that the DG eigenvalues can approximate the true eigenvalues from upper. Another contribution of this work is to provide a-posteriori error analysis for the DG method. A reliable a-posteriori error estimator is analyzed. The upper bound property of DG eigenvalues and the robustness of adaptive methods are verified through numerical experiments.