A balancing domain decomposition by constraints preconditioner for a hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin discretization of an elliptic optimal control problem

Abstract: We consider a hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method for an elliptic distributed optimal control problem and we propose a balancing domain decomposition by constraints (BDDC) preconditioner to solve the discretized system. We establish an error estimate of the HDG methods with explicit tracking of a regularization parameter $\beta$. We observe that the BDDC preconditioner is robust with respect to $\beta$. Numerical results are shown to support our findings.