Vekua theory for the Helmholtz operator

DOI10.1007/S00033-011-0142-3MaRDI QIDQ1938458zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ralf Hiptmair, Andrea Moiola, Ilaria Perugia

Publication date 4 February 2013

Published in ZAMP. Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/159699

zbMATH Keywords

generalized harmonic polynomials Helmholtz equation Sobolev continuity Vekua transform

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05)

Review text

In this paper, the authors investigate the Vekua theory for the Helmholtz operator in a class of bounded Lipschitz domains in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) (\(n\geqslant 2\)). The Vekua operator \(V_{1}\) transforms the solution \(u\) to the homogeneous Laplace equation \[ \Delta u= 0 \] into solutions of the homogeneous Helmholtz equation \[ \Delta u+\omega^2 u= 0 \] and the Vekua operator \(V_{2}\) does the converse. The authors establish that the operators \(V_{1}\) and \(V_{2}\) are inverse to each other. The authors prove that Vekua operators \(V_{1}\), \(V_{2}\) are continuous from the Sobolev space \(H^j(D)\) into \(H^j(D)\), \(j\geqslant 0\). The constant of continuity is explicited in several parameters : the domain shape parameter \(\rho \in (0,\frac12]\) (\(\rho\) is assumed to be such that the ball of radius \(\rho h\) is included in the domain \(D\), where \(h\) is the diameter of \(D\)), the Sobolev regularity exponent \(j\geqslant 0\), and the wavenumber times the diameter \(\omega h\). The authors prove that the generalized harmonic polynomials are circular waves in 2D and spherical waves in 3D, and the generalized harmonic polynomials belong to the class of Herglotz functions.

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