Lp-theory of a boundary intelgral equation on a cuspidal contour (Q4384855)

The paper is part of a larger set of papers where the authors studied integral equations of logarithmic potential theory on contours with peaks. Given the Dirichlet problem \(\Delta u=0\) in \(\Omega\), \(u|_\Gamma=\varphi\), in the complex \(z\)-plane, the authors search for solutions in the form \(u(z)=v\sigma(z)+c\), where \(\Omega\) is a simply connected domain in the complex plane with compact closure, \(\Gamma\) its boundary with a peak in \(z=0\), \(c\in\mathbb{R}\), \[ v\sigma(z)=\int_\Gamma\sigma(q)\log(| z|/(| z-q|))ds_q, \] \(\sigma\) the density of the logarithmic potential satisfying the integral equation \(v\sigma+c=\varphi\) on \(\Gamma\). This integral equation is the proper object of the paper. Considering the integral operator as an operator \[ {\mathcal B}:\{\sigma,c\}\to v\sigma+c \] from one space to another, defined in the paper, the authors prove that it is continuous, show the conditions in which the integral equation is solvable, solve Dirichlet's problem for inward and outward peaks, give information about the normal derivative of harmonic functions and study the kernel of the operator \({\mathcal B}\).