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This paper focuses on the optimal error estimates of a linearized Crank–Nicolson scheme for the Landau–Lifshitz (LL) equation describing the evolution of spin fields in continuum ferromagnets. We present a rigorous analysis for the regularity of the local strong solution to LL equation with Neumann boundary conditions. The proof of the optimal error estimates are based upon an error splitting technique proposed by Li and Sun. Numerical results are provided to confirm our theoretical analysis.

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The author would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their careful reviews and valuable comments to improve the quality of this manuscript. This work was done while the author was visiting Department of Mathematics at City University of Hong Kong. The author would like to thank Professor Weiwei Sun for his kindly invitation.
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This work is supported by Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation with Grant Nos. LY16A010017 and LY14A010020.
Appendix: Proof of Theorem 2.3
Appendix: Proof of Theorem 2.3
Taking \(t=0\) at (1.4), we get
By a classical argument, we can prove
Differentiating (1.4) with respect to t leads to
The following theorem improves the regularity (2.11) in Theorem 2.2.
Theorem 8.1
Suppose \(\mathbf{m }_0\in \mathbf{H }^5(\Omega )\). Then we have
Proof
Multiplying (8.2) by \(-\Delta \mathbf{m }_t\) and integrating over \(\Omega \) yield
where we use \((\mathbf{m }\times \Delta \mathbf{m }_t,\Delta \mathbf{m }_t)=0\). By Hölder inequality, Young inequality, (2.7) and (2.9), \(I_1\) is bounded as
where \(\varepsilon _1>0\) is a small constant determined later. It follows from (2.1) and (2.9) that
By a similar way, we have
Let \(\varepsilon _1<\lambda /4\). Then combining these estimates into (8.4), and using Gronwall inequality, we conclude that
where we use (2.10) and (8.1). From (8.2), one has
which implies that \(\mathbf{m }_{tt}\in \mathbf{L }^2(0,T;\mathbf{L }^2(\Omega ))\) after integrating above inequality from 0 to T and using (8.5). \(\square \)
Taking \(t=0\) in (8.2) and using (8.1), we have
Differentiating (8.2) with respect to t, again, we get
Then we can show the following estimate for \(\mathbf{m }_{tt}\).
Theorem 8.2
Suppose \(\mathbf{m }_0\in \mathbf{H }^5(\Omega )\). Then we have
Proof
Testing (8.7) by \( \mathbf{m }_{tt}\) and using \((\mathbf{m }_{tt}\times \Delta \mathbf{m },\mathbf{m }_{tt})=0\) yield
By integrating by parts, we estimate \(I_4\) by
for some small \(\varepsilon _2>0\) determined later, where we use Hölder inequality, Young inequality, (2.1), (2.3), (2.9). From (2.1–2.9) and (8.5), other terms in the right-hand side of (8.9) are bounded, respectively, by
Combining these estimates into (8.9) and taking \(\varepsilon _2<\lambda /6\), the estimate (8.8) follows from Gronwall inequality. \(\square \)
To improve the regularity of the solution \(\mathbf{m }\) to the LL equation (1.4) and (1.2), the following estimates (8.10) and (8.12) for \(\mathbf{m }\times \Delta \mathbf{m }\) are needed.
Lemma 8.1
Suppose \(\mathbf{m }_0\in \mathbf{H }^5(\Omega )\). Then we have
Proof
It follows from (1.5) and (8.3) that
Differentiating (1.5) with respect to \(\mathbf{x }\) twice, we obtain
Then one has
which together with (8.11) completes the proof of (8.10). \(\square \)
Lemma 8.2
Suppose \(\mathbf{m }_0\in \mathbf{H }^5(\Omega )\). Then we have
Proof
Differentiating (1.5) with respect to t yields
From (2.9) and (8.8), it is easy to show
Moreover, from (2.9) and (8.8) one has
which completes the proof of (8.12). \(\square \)
Based upon the above results, The regularities of the solution \(\mathbf{m }\) can be improved.
Theorem 8.3
Suppose \(\mathbf{m }_0\in \mathbf{H }^5(\Omega )\). Then we have
Proof
Differentiating (1.4) with respect to \(\mathbf{x }\) yields:
From (2.8), we have
which leads to \(||\nabla ^3\mathbf{m }||_{L^2}\le C\) and \(\mathbf{m }\in \mathbf{L }^\infty (0,T;\mathbf{H }^3(\Omega ))\). \(\square \)
An alternative to (8.2 ) is
We can derive the following estimates for \(\mathbf{m }_t\) and \(\mathbf{m }_{tt}\).
Theorem 8.4
Suppose \(\mathbf{m }_0\in \mathbf{H }^5(\Omega )\). Then we have
Proof
In view of (2.5), (8.8) and (8.12), it is easy to show
which leads to \(\mathbf{m }_t\in \mathbf{L }^\infty (0,T;\mathbf{H }^2(\Omega ))\). Differentiating (8.14) with respect to \(\mathbf{x }\) yields:
By using (2.8), we get
which together with (8.8) and (8.12) yields \(\mathbf{m }_t\in \mathbf{L }^2(0,T;\mathbf{H }^3(\Omega ))\). \(\square \)
Theorem 8.5
Suppose \(\mathbf{m }_0\in \mathbf{H }^5(\Omega )\). Then we have
Proof
Testing (8.7) by \( -\Delta \mathbf{m }_{tt}\) and using Young inequality yield
Integrating the above inequality from 0 to T and using (8.6), we complete the proof of (8.16). \(\square \)
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An, R. Optimal Error Estimates of Linearized Crank–Nicolson Galerkin Method for Landau–Lifshitz Equation. J Sci Comput 69, 1–27 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10915-016-0181-1
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