Riemann boundary value problem for hyperanalytic functions (Q2368402)

Let \(D\) be the Douglis algebra generated by the elements \(i\) and \(e\), meaning that the multiplication in \(D\) is governed by the rules: \(i^2=-1,\; ie=ei,\; e^0=1\), there exists a (minimal) positive integer \(r\) such that \(e^r=0\). Thus an arbitrary \(a\in D\) is of the form \[ a=\sum_{k=0}^{r-1}a_ke^k \] with \(\{a_k\}\subset\mathbb C\). \(a_0\) is called the complex part of \(a\), and \(A:=\sum_{k=1}^{r-1}a_ke^k\) is called the nilpotent part. Given \(\Omega\subset\mathbb C\) and a \(D\)-valued function, smooth enough, the Douglis operator is defined by \[ \partial_{\overline{z}}^q:=\partial_{\overline{z}}+q(z)\partial_z \] with \(z=x+iy\), \(\partial_z\) and \(\partial_{\overline{z}}\) being the standard complex operators, and \(q\) is a known nilpotent hypercomplex function. Under the above notation, a \(D\)-valued \(f\) is called \textit{hyperanalytic} in \(\Omega\) if \(\dz f=0\) in \(\Omega\). The basic example of a hyperanalytic function is the generating solution of the Douglis operator given by \[ W(z)=z+\sum_{k=1}^{r-1}W_k(z)e^k, \] namely, \(\dz W=0\) and its nilpotent part possesses bounded and continuous derivatives up to the second order in \(\mathbb C\). All this the reader can find in Section 2, Preliminaries, and it is complemented with a series of properties of hyperanalytic functions, among them: the hyperanalytic Cauchy kernel, i.e. the fundamental solution of the Douglis operator; the Cauchy-Pompeiu integral representation; the Cauchy integral formula; the Cauchy-type integral and the Sokhotski-Plemelj formulas; some classes of \(D\)-valued functions defined by their modulus of continuity and their properties; some estimates for the Cauchy-type integral; etc. Notice that some facts were known before and the others are new. In Section 3, Riemann boundary value problem, the authors show that the classic setting for that problem keeps making sense in the hyperanalytic setting; what is more, the tools developed in the previous section allowed them to present a complete analysis of it which generalizes, directly again, the classic one. Finally, there is given, in Section 4, an analysis of the singular integral equation with hyperanalytic Cauchy kernel reducing the latter to the corresponding Riemann boundary value problem.