Solving boundary value problems with ``average'' data sampled on an arc (Q1898779)

The author treats the boundary value problem \[ (\Delta+ P(|x|^2)) u(x)= 0,\quad x\in \Omega,\quad u(x_0)= f(x_0),\quad x_0\in \partial\Omega \] by reformulating the problem in terms of the theory of analytic functions. The domain \(\Omega\) is star-shaped about the origin with \(C^2\) boundary because of necessity to extend expansion theorems constructed on the disk to a conformally equivalent domain. The solutions are uniquely determined from the mean values of the boundary data \(f(x)\) sampled at equally spaced points of the circumference; or, along an arc on the circumference of the disk. To formulate the equivalent problem the method of transmutations is used for generating solutions of equivalence classes of the boundary value problem. In the last section, the inverse problem is considered which is to reconstruct a solution with suitable properties given a sequence of arithmetic means taken along the boundary. One of the sections can be considered as a short review of a few recently developed integral transforms.