Error estimates for fully discrete generalized FEMs with locally optimal spectral approximations

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This paper is concerned with error estimates of the fully discrete generalized finite element method (GFEM) with optimal local approximation spaces for solving elliptic problems with heterogeneous coefficients.

• The local approximation spaces are constructed using eigenvectors of local eigenvalue problems solved by the finite element method on some sufficiently fine mesh with mesh size $h$.
• The error bound of the discrete GFEM approximation is proved to converge as $h\rightarrow 0$ towards that of the continuous GFEM approximation, which was shown to decay nearly exponentially in previous works.
• Moreover, even for fixed mesh size $h$, a nearly exponential rate of convergence of the local approximation errors with respect to the dimension of the local spaces is established.