On the Neumann-Poincaré operator (Q4515328)

Let \(\Gamma \) be a Jordan curve in the complex plane regular in the sense of Ahlfors and David (AD-regular curve). The authors prove the following characterization of the circle in the class of all AD-regular curves. \(\Gamma \) is the circle iff the Neumann-Poincaré operator (i.e. the double layer potential with the density \(f\) on \(\Gamma \)) transforms the space \(L^2_0(\Gamma)\) of all real valued square integrable functions \(f\) on \(\Gamma \) fulfilling \(\int _{\Gamma }f(\xi)|d\xi |=0\) into itself. This theorem contains a.o. the negative answer to a problem of \textit{J. Krzyź} from: Linear and complex analysis problem book 3. Part 1. Lecture Notes in Math. 1573. \textit{V. P. Havin} and \textit{N. K. Nikolski} (eds.), p. 418 (1994; Zbl 0893.30036).