On Poincaré-Friedrichs Type Inequalities for the Broken Sobolev Space ${\rm W}^{2,1}$

Abstract

We are concerned with the derivation of Poincaré-Friedrichs type inequalities in the broken Sobolev space $W^{2,1}$($Ω$; $\mathcal{T}_h$) with respect to a geometrically conforming, simplicial triagulation $\mathcal{T}_h$ of a bounded Lipschitz domain $Ω$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$ , $d$ $∈$ $\mathbb{N}$. Such inequalities are of interest in the numerical analysis of nonconforming finite element discretizations such as ${\rm C}^0$ Discontinuous Galerkin (${\rm C}^0$${\rm DG}$) approximations of minimization problems in the Sobolev space $W^{2,1}$($Ω$), or more generally, in the Banach space $BV^2$($Ω$) of functions of bounded second order total variation. As an application, we consider a ${\rm C}^0$${\rm DG}$ approximation of a minimization problem in $BV^2$($Ω$) which is useful for texture analysis and management in image restoration.