An efficient technique for solving a class of infinite systems in contact problems in the theory of elasticity (Q1190896)

We illustrate the efficiency of a method of solving infinite systems of linear algebraic equations of the first kind with singular coefficient matrices, to which many problems in the theory of elasticity and mathematical physics with mixed boundary conditions reduce. The method is based on a knowledge of the behaviour of the solution of the system for large numbers, which may be determined from an analysis of the behaviour of the initial problems at singular points. This enables us to reduce an infinite system to and efficiently-solvable finite system.