On the convergence of a linear two-step finite element method for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation

Abstract

We discretize the nonlinear Schrödinger equation, with Dirichlet boundary conditions, by a linearly implicit two-step finite element method which conserves the L2 norm. We prove optimal order a priori error estimates in the L2 and H1 norms, under mild mesh conditions for two and three space dimensions.