Variational forms for the inverses of integral logarithmic operators over an interval (Q544907)

Let \(I\) be an interval. The authors study the following weakly singular integral operators: \[ {\mathcal L}_1\varphi(x)=\int_I\log\frac{1}{|x-y|}\varphi(y)\,dy,\quad {\mathcal L}_2\varphi(x)=\int_I\log\left(\frac{M(x,y)}{|x-y|}\right)\varphi(y)\,dy, \] where \(M(x,y)=((y-x)^2+(\sqrt{1-x^2}+\sqrt{1-y^2})^2)/2\), as well as the hypersingular integral integral equation \(\varphi(x)=\frac{1}{|I|}\int\frac{\alpha(y)}{|x-y|^2}\,dy\), where \(\alpha\) is a jump of the Dirichlet trace. The authors show that a symmetric and antisymmetric decomposition leads to precise coercivity results for these operators in fractional Sobolev spaces. No proofs are given.