SPECTRAL CORRECTNESS OF THE SIMPLICIAL DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN APPROXIMATION OF THE FIRST-ORDER FORM OF MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS WITH DISCONTINUOUS COEFFICIENTS

The paper analyzes the discontinuous Galerkin approximation of Maxwell's equations written in first-order form and with nonhomogeneous magnetic permeability and electric permittivity. Although the Sobolev smoothness index of the solution may be smaller than (Formula presented) , it is shown that the approximation converges strongly and is therefore spectrally correct. The convergence proof uses the notion of involution and is based on a deflated inf-sup condition and a duality argument. One essential idea is that the smoothness index of the dual solution is always larger than (Formula presented) irrespective of the regularity of the material properties.