A convergence analysis for the superconsistent Chebyshev method

The superconsistent collocation method is based on collocation nodes which are different from those used to represent the solution. The two grids are chosen in such a way that the continuous and the discrete operators coincide on a space as larger as possible (superconsistency). There are many documented situations in which this technique provides excellent numerical results. Unfortunately very little theory has been developed. Here, a theoretical convergence analysis for the superconsistent discretization of the second derivative operator, when the representation grid is the set of Chebyshev Gauss-Lobatto nodes is carried out. To this end, a suitable quadrature formula is introduced and studied. (C) 2006 IMACS, Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.