id: 06082196 dt: a an: 06082196 au: Beuchler, Sven; Pillwein, Veronika; Schöberl, Joachim; Zaglmayr, Sabine ti: Sparsity optimized high order finite element functions on simplices. so: Langer, Ulrich (ed.) et al., Numerical and symbolic scientific computing. Progress and prospects. New York, NY: Springer (ISBN 978-3-7091-0793-5/pbk; 978-3-7091-0794-2/ebook). Texts \& Monographs in Symbolic Computation, 21-44 (2012). py: 2012 pu: New York, NY: Springer la: EN cc: ut: sparsity optimized basis functions; finite element method; tetrahedral finite element meshes; mass and stiffness matrix ci: li: doi:10.1007/978-3-7091-0794-2_2 ab: Summary: This article reports several results on sparsity optimized basis functions for the $hp$-finite element method on triangular and tetrahedral finite element meshes obtained within the Special Research Program “Numerical and Symbolic Scientific Computing” and within the Doctoral Program “Computational Mathematics” both supported by the Austrian Science Fund FWF under the grants SFB F013 and DK W1214, respectively. We give an overview on the sparsity pattern for mass and stiffness matrices in the spaces $L_{2}, H^{1}, H(\text{div})$ and $H(\text{curl})$. The construction relies on a tensor-product based construction with properly weighted Jacobi polynomials. rv: