Approximate solution of singular integro-differential equations in generalized Hölder spaces (Q2458319)

The paper is devoted to the collocation method and the mechanical quadrature method for the approximate solution of the integro-differential equations \[ \left[\sum^m_{k=0} a_k(t)x^{(k)}(t) + \frac{b_k(t)}{\pi i} \int_\Gamma \frac{x^{(k)}(\tau)\,d\tau}{\tau-t}+ \frac{1}{2\pi i} \int_\Gamma h_k(t,\tau)x^{(k)}(\tau)\,d\tau \right] = f(t), \quad t \in \Gamma, \tag{1} \] under the boundary conditions \[ \frac{1}{2\pi i} \int_\Gamma x(\tau)\tau^{-k-1} \,d\tau = 0, \quad k=0,1,\dots,m-1. \tag{2} \] Here \(a_k(t),\) \(b_k(t),\) \(h_k(t,\tau),\) \(k=0,1,\ldots,m,\) \(f(t) \) are known functions, \(x(t)\) is the unknown function, \(\Gamma\) is a closed smooth curve under a conformal mapping onto the disk \(\gamma = \{z : |z| =1\}\). In this paper theorems on the convergence and error estimates for collocation and mechanical quadrature methods for an approximate solution of integro-differential equations in generalized Hölder spaces are sketched out without producing the complete proofs. This paper is a generalization of the article by \textit{I. V. Boykov} and \textit{J. I. Zhechev} [Differ. Uravn. 9, 1493--1502 (1973; Zbl 0291.45008)] in which the collocation method and the mechanical quadrature method for solving boundary problems (1)--(2) (and for more general problems as well) on the disk \(\gamma\) were proposed and proven completely in Hölder and \(L_p\) spaces. The authors missed an opportunity to make this article more useful by giving their readers references to the original papers by \textit{I. V. Boykov} and \textit{J. I. Zhechev} [loc. cit. and Differ. Uravn. 11, 562--571 (1975; Zbl 0306.45009)].