Hidden Accuracy and Superconvergence Analysis of Central Discontinuous Galerkin Methods on Overlapping Meshes

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This paper establishes the first rigorous superconvergence theory for semidiscrete and fully discrete central discontinuous Galerkin (CDG) methods for linear hyperbolic equations on overlapping meshes. While the optimal $L^2$ convergence of $\mathbb{Q}^k$ CDG schemes was established on uniform Cartesian meshes by Liu, Shu, and Zhang [ SIAM J. Numer. Anal.}, 56 (2018), pp. 520--541], their observed $\mathcal{O}(h^{k+2})$ pointwise superconvergence has remained unproven, due to the loss of standard single-mesh Galerkin orthogonality inherent in the CDG overlapping structure. To overcome this fundamental barrier, we introduce a projection-correction framework that identifies a hidden superconvergent mechanism: an asymptotic weak residual cancellation in one dimension, and a high-order cancellation-by-aggregation (HOCA) mechanism in multiple dimensions. This HOCA approach overcomes the analytical challenge posed by coupled primal-dual directional residuals, recovering critical error cancellation properties absent from the standard variational formulation. Consequently, we provide the rigorous proof of the conjectured $\mathcal{O}(h^{k+2})$ pointwise superconvergence in the discrete $\ell^{\infty}$ norm across all superconvergent points. Furthermore, we reveal that under a systematically corrected initialization, this framework yields a previously undiscovered, stronger cell-average superconvergence estimate of order $\mathcal{O}(h^{\min\{2k+1,k+3\}})$. The theory is extended to fully discrete explicit Runge--Kutta CDG schemes, where stagewise corrected errors are constructed to preserve spatial superconvergence up to temporal truncation errors, yielding a stable reconstruction-based postprocessing estimate. Numerical experiments in one and two spatial dimensions confirm the sharpness of the theoretical rates.

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