On the Riemann-Hilbert problem with a piecewise constant matrix (Q2427609)

The goal of this paper is to construct of solution to the vector-matrix Riemann boundary value problem for circular multiply connected domains. The authors develop the method only for the case of constant matrix coefficients on each connected component of the boundary under some restrictions, but it can be done also for more general coefficients. The method developed here is based on the reduction to a system of functional equations in complex domain, which is a generalization of the method available in the scalar case. The final form of the solution involves the Christoffel-Schwarz transformation of the half-plane onto a circular polygon which contains undetermined parameters satisfying some equations.