Layer potentials beyond singular integral operators (Q2637441)

This paper is concerned with boundary value problems for quite general divergence form second order elliptic systems on the upper half-space \((0,\infty )\times \mathbb{R}^{n}\) with boundary data in \(L_{2}(\mathbb{R}^{n})\). The author comments that, in recent years, there have been new results in this area based on two seemingly different approaches, namely singular operators (S) and functional calculus (F). This paper addresses a problem posed by S. Hofmann in 2008 by showing that the singular integral operators used in (S) are special cases of the abstract operators used in (F). In the process he also obtains a new construction of fundamental solutions of divergence form systems.