The solvability of the Dirichlet problem for the vibrating string equation in domains with corner points (Q1189997)

Let \(\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^ 2\) be a convex bounded domain with piecewise smooth boundary \(\partial \Omega = \bigcup^ n_{j=1} \Gamma_ j\) such that each smooth part \(\Gamma_ j\) of \(\partial \Omega\) has positive curvature (or is straight). The author gives necessary and sufficient conditions (for the function \(f)\) for the solvability in \(W^{1,2} (\Omega)\) of the boundary value problem \(u_{xy} = 0\) in \(\Omega\), \(u=f\) on \(\partial \Omega\). Moreover, in the case of \(n \leq 4\) new solution formulae are found.