Sinc-collocation methods for weakly singular Fredholm integral equations of the second kind (Q970414)

The authors propose new numerical methods for linear Fredholm integral equations of the second kind with weakly singular kernels as \[ \lambda u(t)- \int^b_a|t-s|^{p-1} k(t,s)u(s)\,ds = g(t), \quad a\leq t\leq b, \] where \(\lambda\neq 0\), \(0<p<1\), \(k\) and \(g\) are given functions, \(u\) is the solution to be determined. The methods are developed by means of the sinc approximation with smoothing transformations, which is an effective technique against the singularities of the equations. Numerical examples show that the methods achieve exponential convergence, and in this sence the methods improve conventional results where only polynomial convergence have been reported so far.