Justification of the Galerkin method for hypersingular equations (Q2630038)

The authors study hypersingular equations used for problems of electromagnetic-wave diffraction on open surfaces of revolution. For solving the problems they justify and use a Galerkin method. By using this method a separation of the principal term and its analytic inversion is applied. It is shown that the principal operator is completely continuous. As a conseqence of these results the equivalence of the initial equation to a Fredholm integral equation of the second kind is proven. For the numerical solution of an example used the Chebyshev polynomials of the second kind are used.