Fast algorithms for the solution of pseudodifferential equations

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In many cases the boundary element method produces an integral equation having a kernel singularity of the type \(x^{-1}\), a so-called Cauchy type singular integral equation given on the smooth closed curve \(\Gamma\) \[ a(t)u(t) +{b(t) \over \pi i} \int_\Gamma {u(\tau)d \tau \over \tau-t} +\int_\Gamma k(t,\tau) u(\tau)d \tau=f(t), \quad t\in \Gamma, \tag{1} \] where \(k(t,\tau)\) is smoother than \((\tau-t)^{-1}\). The present paper is mainly devoted to the solution of this kind of equations. We give an algorithm called parametrix-Galerkin method being based on the corrected collocation method. Its computational complexity is only \(O(n\log n)\) and it has a better convergence behaviour in ``negative Sobolev norms than the collocation method. Further, we describe some other fast algorithms for equation (1) given on smooth closed curves \(\Gamma\) or on the interval \([-1,1]\) and prove their convergence in several scales of function spaces, which we define in Section 2. In Section 3 we deal with special properties of equation (1). The ``classical approximation methods are described in Section 4, whereas in Section 5 the fast algorithms are proposed. All of the algorithms consist of two steps. In the first step, a parametrix for the pseudodifferential operator \(A\) is used in order to get an approximate solution on a fine grid. In a second step this solution is corrected in a certain manner by the solution on a coarse grid. Mostly, we only give an overview of the algorithms since the results are partly published yet. The errror estimates in Hölder-Zygmund norms (Subsection 5.3) are new. With some remarks on further investigations (Section 6) and numerical results (Section 7) we close our paper. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0877.00013].











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