LOCAL TRANSPARENT BOUNDARY CONDITIONS FOR WAVE PROPAGATION IN FRACTAL TREES (II). ERROR AND COMPLEXITY ANALYSIS

This work is dedicated to a refined error analysis of the high-order transparent boundary conditions for the weighted wave equation on a fractal tree, introduced in the companion work [P. Joly and M. Kachanovska, SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 43 (2021), pp. A3760-A3788]. The construction of such boundary conditions relies on truncating the meromorphic series that represents the symbol of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator. The error induced by the truncation depends on the behavior of the eigenvalues and the eigenfunctions of the weighted Laplacian on a self-similar metric tree. In this work we quantify this error by computing asymptotics of the eigenvalues and bounds for Neumann traces of the eigenfunctions. We prove the sharpness of the obtained bounds for a class of self-similar trees.