A quadrature method for Cauchy integral equations with weakly singular perturbation kernel (Q1195353)

The authors study the singular integral equation \[ a(x)u(x)+\pi^{- 1}b(x)\int^{+1}_{-1}u(t)/(t-x)dt+\int^{+1}_{-1} k(x,t)u(t)dt=f(x) \] on \((-1,+1)\); the first integral is to be interpreted as the Cauchy principal value, \(a\), \(b\) and \(f\) are given Hölder continuous functions, and the perturbation kernel \(k\) is a given smooth or weakly singular kernel. The numerical solution is sought by a quadrature procedure based on orthogonal polynomials as trial functions. Provided that \(k\) is of the form \(k(x,t)=[h(x,t)-h(x,x)]/(t-x)\) where \(h\in C^{r+\lambda}([- 1,+1]^ 2)\), \(f\in C^{r+\lambda}[-1,+1]\), \(0<\lambda\leq 1\), it can be shown that the quadrature method converges of the order \(O(n^{-r- \lambda}\log n)\), \(w\) being the weight function in the orthogonality relation of Jacobi polynomials. Error estimates in uniform norm are also given. In the proofs, the authors utilize properties of Gauss-type formulas based on the zeros of Jacobi polynomials and those of Jackson polynomials and Lagrange interpolation. After having studied the case of constant \(a\) and \(b\), the authors give extensions of the results when \(a\) and \(b\) are real valued functions. No numerical examples.