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design: WMX Design, Heidelberg Printed on acid-free paper springer.com To our families for their love and understanding Preface This book is devoted to the mathematical foundation of boundary integral equations The combination of finite element analysis on the boundary with these equations has led to very efficient computational tools, the boundary element methods (see e g., the authors [139] and Schanz and Steinbach (eds.) [267]) Although we not deal with the boundary element discretizations in this book, the material presented here gives the mathematical foundation of these methods In order to avoid over generalization we have confined ourselves to the treatment of elliptic boundary value problems The central idea of eliminating the field equations in the domain and reducing boundary value problems to equivalent equations only on the boundary requires the knowledge of corresponding fundamental solutions, and this idea has a long history dating back to the work of Green [107] and Gauss [95, 96] Today the resulting boundary integral equations still serve as a major tool for the analysis and construction of solutions to boundary value problems As is well known, the reduction to equivalent boundary integral equations is by no means unique, and there are primarily two procedures for this reduction, the ‘direct’ and ‘indirect’ approaches The direct procedure is based on Green’s representation formula for solutions of the boundary value problem, whereas the indirect approach rests on an appropriate layer ansatz In our presentation we concentrate on the direct approach although the corresponding analysis and basic properties of the boundary integral operators remain the same for the indirect approaches Roughly speaking, one obtains two kinds of boundary integral equations with both procedures, those of the first kind and those of the second kind The basic mathematical properties that guarantee existence of solutions to the boundary integral equations and also stability and convergence analysis of corresponding numerical procedures hinge on G˚ arding inequalities for the boundary integral operators on appropriate function spaces In addition, contraction properties allow the application of Carl Neumann’s classical successive iteration procedure to a class of boundary integral equations of the second kind It turns out that these basic features are intimately related to the variational forms of the underlying elliptic boundary value problems VIII Preface and the potential energies of their solution fields, allowing us to consider the boundary integral equations in the form of variational problems on the boundary manifold of the domain On the other hand, the Newton potentials as the inverses of the elliptic partial differential operators are particular pseudodifferential operators on the domain or in the Euclidean space The boundary potentials (or Poisson operators) are just Newton potentials of distributions with support on the boundary manifold and the boundary integral operators are their traces there Therefore, it is rather natural to consider the boundary integral operators as pseudodifferential operators on the boundary manifold Indeed, most of the boundary integral operators in applications can be recast as such pseudodifferential operators provided that the boundary manifold is smooth enough With the application of boundary element methods in mind, where strong ellipticity is the basic concept for stability, convergence and error analysis of corresponding discretization methods for the boundary integral equations, we are most interested in establishing strong ellipticity in terms of G˚ arding’s inequality for the variational formulation as well as strong ellipticity of the pseudodifferential operators generated by the boundary integral equations The combination of both, namely the variational properties of the elliptic boundary value and transmission problems as well as the strongly elliptic pseudodifferential operators provides us with an efficient means to analyze a large class of elliptic boundary value problems This book contains 10 chapters and an appendix For the reader’s benefit, Figure 0.1 gives a sketch of the topics contained in this book Chapters through present various examples and background information relevant to the premises of this book In Chapter 5, we discuss the variational formulation of boundary integral equations and their connection to the variational solution of associated boundary value or transmission problems In particular, continuity and coerciveness properties of a rather large class of boundary integral equations are obtained, including those discussed in the first and second chapters In Chapter 4, we collect basic properties of Sobolev spaces in the domain and their traces on the boundary, which are needed for the variational formulations in Chapter Chapter presents an introduction to the basic theory of classical pseudodifferential operators In particular, we present the construction of a parametrix for elliptic pseudodifferential operators in subdomains of IRn Moreover, we give an iterative procedure to find Levi functions of arbitrary order for general elliptic systems of partial differential equations If the fundamental solution exists then Levi’s method based on Levi functions allows its construction via an appropriate integral equation Preface IX In Chapter 7, we show that every pseudodifferential operator is an Hadamard’s finite part integral operator with integrable or nonintegrable kernel plus possibly a differential operator of the same order as that of the pseudodifferential operator in case of nonnegative integer order In addition, we formulate the necessary and sufficient Tricomi conditions for the integral operator kernels to define pseudodifferential operators in the domain by using the asymptotic expansions of the symbols and those of pseudohomogeneous kernels We close Chapter with a presentation of the transformation formulae and invariance properties under the change of coordinates Chapter is devoted to the relation between the classical pseudodifferential operators and boundary integral operators For smooth boundaries, all of our examples in Chapters and of boundary integral operators belong to the class of classical pseudodifferential operators on compact manifolds having symbols of the rational type If the corresponding class of pseudodifferential operators in the form of Newton potentials is applied to tensor product distributions with support on the boundary manifold, then they generate, in a natural way, boundary integral operators which again are classical pseudodifferential operators on the boundary manifold Moreover, for these operators associated with regular elliptic boundary value problems, it turns out that the corresponding Hadamard’s finite part integral operators are invariant under the change of coordinates, as considered in Chapter This approach also provides the jump relations of the potentials We obtain these properties by using only the Schwartz kernels of the boundary integral operators However, these are covered by Boutet de Monvel’s work in the 1960’s on regular elliptic problems involving the transmission properties The last two chapters, and 10, contain concrete examples of boundary integral equations in the framework of pseudodifferential operators on the boundary manifold In Chapter 9, we provide explicit calculations of the symbols corresponding to typical boundary integral operators on closed surfaces in IR3 If the fundamental solution is not available then the boundary value problem can still be reduced to a coupled system of domain and boundary integral equations As an illustration we show that these coupled systems can be considered as some particular Green operators of the Boutet de Monvel algebra In Chapter 10, the special features of Fourier series expansions of boundary integral operators on closed curves are exploited We conclude the book with a short Appendix on differential operators in local coordinates with minimal differentiability Here, we avoid the explicit use of the normal vector field as employed in Hadamard’s coordinates in Chapter These local coordinates may also serve for a more detailed analysis for Lipschitz domains X Preface Classical model problems (Chap and Chap 2) ψdOs in Ω ⊂ Rn (Chap 6) (Chap 5) (Chap 10) ❇ ❆❅ ✁✁ ❇❆❅ ✁ ❇❆ ❅ ✁ ❇❆ ❅ ✁ ❄ ❄ ❇ ❆ ✁❅ Generalized multilayer Classical ψdOs and IOs ❇ ❆ ✁ ❅ ❅ potentials on Γ = ∂Ω in Ω ⊂ Rn ❇ ✁❆ ❅ ❇ ❆ (Chap 7) (Chap 3) ❅ ✁❇ ❆ ✁❅ ❇ ❆ ✁ ❅ ❄ ❄ ✁ ❇ ❅❆ ❇ ❆ ✁ ❅ Sobolev spaces and trace ✁ BIEs and ψdOs on Γ ❇ ❅ ❆❆ ❇ theorems (Chap 4) (Chap and Chap 9) ❇ ❇ ❇ ❄ ❄ ❇ Fourier representation of ❇ Variational formulations of ❇ BIOs and ψdOs on Γ ⊂ R2 BVPs and BIEs Abbreviations: Ω ⊂ IRn BVPs BIEs ψdOs IOs BIOs – – – – – – A given domain with compact boundary Γ Boundary value problems Boundary integral equations Pseudodifferential operators Integral operators Boundary integral operators Fig 0.1 A schematic sketch of the topics and their relations Our original plan was to finish this book project about 10 years ago However, many new ideas and developments in boundary integral equation methods appeared during these years which we have attempted to incorporate Nevertheless, we regret to say that the present book is by no means complete For instance, we only slightly touch on the boundary integral 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operator, 226, 317 – system, 63 Agmon–Douglis–Nirenberg system, 328, 329, 341, 351 Airy stress function, 79 almost incompressible materials, 75 amplitude function, 314 angle of rotation, 81 associated pressure, 64 asymptotic – expansion – – of equations, 31 – – of kernels, 383, 503, 576 – – of symbols, 309, 316, 317 – representation, 399 atlas A, 414, 415, 418, 421, 467 Banach space, 97 Banach’s fixed point principle, 224 Beltrami operator, 119, 597 bending moment, 81 Bessel potential operator, 343, 563 Betti–Somigliana formula, 45 614 Index biharmonic equation, 79, 85, 294, 582, 590 bijective transformation, 403 bilinear form, 80, 251, 565 boundary – conditions, 146 – – normal, 146 – integral – – equations of the first kind, 92 – – operator, 140 – operators, 421, 448 – – generated by domain pseudodifferential operators, 421 – – mapping properties, 418 – sesquilinear forms, 283 – surface, 108 – traction, 247 Boutet de Monvel – algebra, 494, 495 – operator, 494 Calder´ on projector, 9, 14, 67, 85, 141, 270, 582, 587 canonical – extension, 370, 473 – representation of Γ , 554 Carl Neumann’s method, 287, 290 Cauchy – data, 3, 65, 81, 149 – principal value integral, 47, 105 – singular integral equation, 564, 569 change of coordinates, 320, 321, 394, 398 characteristic determinant, 329 Christoffel symbols, 112, 115 circulation, 17 classical Sobolev spaces, 167 closed range, 227 coercive, 295 combined Dirichlet–Neumann problem, 203, 215 commutative diagram, 321 commutator, 537 compact – imbedding, 167 – operator, 219 – support, 96 compatibility – conditions, 66, 71, 81, 86, 142, 186, 214, 359, 372 – relations, 415 complementary – boundary operator, 200, 201 – tangential boundary operators, 146 complete symbol, 316, 317, 323, 366, 502, 520, 581 – of the elastic double layer operator, 580 composition of operators, 317 computation of stress and strain, 543 conormal derivative, 196 continuous – extension, 453 – functional, 98, 100 – operator, 305, 458 contour integral, 449 contraction, 287, 289 contravariant coordinates, 417 convergence – in C0∞ , 97 – in S , 99 convergent iterations, 291 cotangent bundle, 417 coupled system of integral equations, 496 curved polygon, 185 deflection, 81 derivatives of boundary potentials, 541, 547 diffeomorphism, 111, 399, 410, 414, 446, 593 direct formulation, 11, 66 Dirichlet – problem, 27, 66, 81 – to Neumann map, 288 displacement problem, 47 distribution, 97, 305 – with compact support, 98 – homogeneous, 370 domain integral equations, 342 double layer potential, 4, 509, 513, 576, 577 – biharmonic, 81 – hydrodynamic, 65 dual – norm, 164 – operator, 98 duality, 164, 175, 185 dynamic viscosity, 62 eigensolutions, 261, 482 elasticity tensor, 246 elliptic, 326, 327, 329, 341, 499, 563 – formally positive, 245, 248 – in the sense Index – – of Agmon–Douglis–Nirenberg, 568 – – of Petrovski, 350 – on Γ , 419 – regular, 147 energy – space, 258, 278, 289 enforced constraints, 216 equivalence – between boundary value problems and integral equations, 274 – classes of Cauchy sequences, 160 – norms, 168 – theorem, 151 essential boundary condition, 200 essentially bounded, 159 exceptional or irregular frequencies, 28 explicit formulae for the symbol, 558 extension – conditions, 445, 468 – operator, 162 exterior – boundary value problem, 152, 264 – combined Dirichlet–Neumann problem, 214 – Dirichlet problem, 14, 28, 86, 207 – displacement problem, 56 – energy space, 216 – Green’s formula, 198 – Neumann problem, 212, 213 – problems, 65 – representation formula, 138 – traction problem, 60 finite – atlas, 109 – energy, 211 – part integral, 355, 397, 405, 473 first Green’s formula, 196, 487 fluid density, 62 Fourier – integral operators, 314 – series – – expansion, 550, 578, 580 – – norm, 183 – – representation, 555, 557, 575, 577, 581 – – representation of the simple layer potential operator V , 550 – transform, 99, 165, 185, 304 Frechet space, 169 Fredholm – alternative, 226, 240, 482 – index, 242, 563, 564, 567, 568, 572 – integral equation, 337, 342 615 – – of the first kind, 11, 15, 86 – – of the second kind, 12, 15 – operator, 242, 563 – theorem, 226 free space Green’s operator, 356 Frenet’s formulae, 554 Friedrichs inequality, 169 fundamental – assumption, 146, 149 – matrix, 505 – solution, 2, 45, 63, 81, 131, 206, 331, 346 – velocity tensor, 64 Gă unter derivative, 116, 117, 536 Gaussian bracket, 101, 174 – curvature, 114 general – exterior – – Dirichlet problem, 211 – – Neumann–Robin problem, 213 – Green representation formula, 130 – interior – – Dirichlet problem, 200 – – Neumann–Robin problem, 201, 203 generalized – first Green’s formula, 294 – Newton potential, 499, 500 – plane stress, 45 – Plemelj–Sochozki jump relations, 474 – polynomials, 211 – representation formula, 266 – second Green’s formula, 261 generalized representation formula, 495 global parametric representation, 181 graph norm, 251 Green’s – formula, 80 – identity, 128 – operator, 331, 494 growth conditions at infinity, 65 G˚ arding’s – inequality, 218, 243, 245, 248, 254, 256, 259, 278, 283, 286, 292, 343, 420, 482, 567 theorem, 244 Hă older continuity, 49 – modulus, 97 – norm, 97 – spaces, 616 Index Hadamard – coordinates, 111, 113 – finite part integral, 103, 104 – – operator, 354, 366 Helmholtz – equation, 354, 502, 574 – operator, 350 Hilbert – space, 160, 170, 174, 210 – – formulation, 209 – transform, 564, 567 homogeneous, 372 – degree, 310 – distribution, 369 – equation, 260 – function, 353 – polynomial, 369 – principal symbol, 319, 326 – symbol, 389, 575 – – expansion, 505 hydrodynamic boundary – integral operator, 292 – traction, 66 hypersingular – boundary – – integral equation, 13 – – potential, 535 – elastic operator, 580 – integral equation of the first kind, 16 – operator, 49, 68, 555, 578 – surface potential, 525 kernel – function, 354 – of the double layer potential, 554 Kieser’s theorem, 524 kinematic viscosity, 62 Korn’s inequality, 247, 248, 251 Kutta–Joukowski condition, 16 incompressible viscous fluid, 62 induced mapping, 415 inner product, 160, 166, 174, 211 insertion problem, 93 interior – boundary value problems, 260 – Dirichlet problem, 86, 200, 590 – displacement problem, 75 – Neumann problem, 201, 253, 591 invariance property, 405, 406 invariant parity conditions, 411 inverse – Fourier transform, 100, 165 – trace theorem, 180 isomorphism, 100, 165 iterated Laplacian, 349 mapping properties of potentials, 268, 282, 497 Maue formula, 578 mean curvature, 114 mixed boundary conditions, 91 modified Calder´ on projector, 150 multi–index, 95 multiple layer potentials, 139, 142 multiplication by ϕ, 169 multiply connected domains, 572 jump relation, 136, 145, 269, 297, 454, 513, 517, 530 – for the derivatives of boundary potentials, 536 Lam´e – constants, 45 – system, 505, 578 Laplace–Beltrami operator, 122 Laplacian, 1, 122 large–time behavior, 31 Lax–Milgram theorem, 195, 219, 223 Levi function, 334, 336, 341, 496, 503 Lipschitz – boundary, 110 – continuous, 97 – norm, 97 local – chart, 414, 421, 467 – fundamental solutions, 346 – operator, 414 – pseudodifferential operator, 416 – spaces, 169 locally – convex topological vector space, 97 Hă older continuous, 97 LopatinskiShapiro condition, 147 Lyapounov boundaries, 19, 110 natural – boundary condition, 201 – trace space, 171 necessary compatibility condition, 141 Neumann – boundary condition, 81 – problem, 66 – series, 335 Newton potential, 45, 500, 502, 505, 506 Index Nikolski’s Theorem, 237 norm, 176, 177 oddly elliptic, 565, 567, 570 one scalar second order equation, 243 order of a symbol, 304 orthogonality conditions, 28, 71, 76, 261, 482 orthonormal matrix, 593 oscillatory integrals, 307 Paley–Wiener–Schwartz theorem, 100, 305, 357 parametric 1–periodic representation, 549 parametrix, 327, 330, 332, 356, 419 parity condition, 389, 390, 399, 404–406, 445, 447 Parseval’s formula, 100 Parseval–Plancherel formula, 165 partial differential equation, 130 partie finie integral, 355, 405 partition of unity, 170, 417 periodic – functions, 181 – pseudodifferential operators, 558 plane strain, 45 Poincar´e inequality, 168 Poisson – equation, – operator, 413, 423, 441, 448, 494 – ratio, 45, 80 polar coordinates, 399 polyhomogeneous, 310 positively homogeneous – function, 304, 380 – principal symbol, 369 positivity, 287 pressure operator, 581 principal – fundamental solutions, 348 – symbol, 316, 320, 416, 417, 574 – – of the acoustic double layer boundary integral operator, 519 – – of the hypersingular boundary integral operator of linear elasticity, 533 – – of the operators Kk and Kk , 518 – – of the simple layer boundary integral operator, 521 product with a distribution, 98 projection theorem, 220 properly supported, 310, 312, 313 617 pseudodifferential operator, 305, 494 – classical, 310, 319, 355, 380 – general representation, 355 – integro–differential operator, 306 – mapping properties, 316, 418 – standard, 304 – transposed, 317 pseudohomogeneous – distribution, 372 – expansion, 354, 558, 577, 586, 587 – function, 101, 359, 372, 375, 381, 389 – kernel, 354, 394 – – expansion, 575 – – under the change of coordinates, 394 pullback, 320, 415 pushforward, 320, 415 radiation condition, 56, 134, 142, 204, 208 rank condition, 248 rapidly decreasing, 99 rational function, 446 regular – diffeomorphism, 112 – elliptic boundary value problem, 147 regularizer, 315 Rellich Lemma, 251 representation – formula, 80, 82, 93, 131, 135, 138, 265 – of pseudodifferential operators, 383 Riemannian metric, 112, 398, 594 Riesz representation theorem, 221 Riesz–Schauder Theorem, 236 right inverse, 180 rigid motion, 253 saddle point problem, 251 scalar differential equation, 119, 348, 510 scalar product, 174, 177 Schwartz – kernel, 305, 335, 356, 381, 383, 420 – space S, 99 second – fundamental form, 114 – Green’s formula, 63, 130, 261 – order system, 148, 195 sectional trace, 466, 478 sesquilinear form, 196, 199, 223, 247, 259 shear force, 81 618 Index shift–theorem, 483 simple layer – hydrodynamic potential, 65 – potential, 3, 81, 508, 514, 550, 574, 578 singular Green’s operator, 495 singular perturbation, 33 skew–symmetric bilinear form, 202 Slobodetskii norm, 161 smoothing – operator, 315, 415 – property, 415 Sobolev – imbedding theorems, 167 – spaces of negative order, 163 Sommerfeld – matrix, 246 – radiation conditions, 26 special parity conditions, 472 Steklov–Poincar´e operator, 288 Stokes system, 61, 62, 329 stream function, 79 stress – operator, 63 – tensor, 63 strong – ellipticity, 219, 512, 556, 564, 569 – Lipschitz domain, 110 strongly elliptic, 326, 343, 419, 480, 513, 515, 565, 570 – second order systems, 510 – system of pseudodifferential operators, 482 supplementary transmission problem, 270 support of a distribution, 98 surface – gradient, 117 – integral, 170 – potential in the half space, 467 symbol, 313, 316, 446, 582 – class, 303 – expansion, 587 – matrix, 330, 524 – of rational type, 446, 447, 475, 478 – of the hypersingular integral operator, 527 symmetric part, 210 system – of pseudodifferential equations, 568, 591 – of periodic integral equations, 572 tangent – bundle, 417 – space, 417 tangential differential operator, 116, 455, 471 tempered distribution, 99, 205 tensor product, 135 thin plate, 80, 81 trace – of Newton potential, 502 – on Γ , 170, 171 – operator, 171, 177, 478, 494 – sectional, 466, 478 – spaces, 169, 171, 178, 180, 181 – – on an open surface, 189 – theorem, 177 traction problem, 55 traditional transformation formula, 394 transformed kernel, 394 transmission – condition, 216, 413, 424, 433, 444, 445, 447, 494 – problems, 215, 264 transposed differential operator, 130 Tricomi conditions, 357, 381, 383, 412, 445, 468 tubular neighbourhood, 421 two–dimensional – Laplacian, 550 – potential flow, 16 uniform cone property, 161 uniformly strongly elliptic, 130, 343 unique – continuation property, 205 – solution, 262, 264 variational formulation, 195, 200, 204, 208, 214, 282, 480 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