scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1285604

Boundary values of solutions to elliptic equations and elliptic systems (35J67) Degenerate elliptic equations (35J70) Pseudodifferential operators and other generalizations of partial differential operators (35S99) Pseudodifferential operators (47G30)

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In the author's earlier paper [Sib. Mat. Zh. 38, 1362-1373 (1997; Zbl 0944.47032)], some conditions are found that guarantee existence of solutions to a special class of pseudodifferential equations defined on a torus. In the article under review, the author uses these results for studying the boundary value problem for the Laplace equation \[ \Delta u = 0 \text{ for }| x| <1; \quad (l,\nabla)u = g \text{ for } | x| = 1, \] where \(x= (x_1, x_2, x_3)\in\mathbb R^3\), \(l=l(x)\neq 0\) is a vector field given on the sphere \(| x|=1\). It is well known that if \(a_n =(l,n)\neq 0\) then the problem is Noetherian with zero index, i.e., the problem has only finitely many linear independent solutions and solvability conditions. If \(a_n =0\) (in this case, the problem is usually called degenerate), considerable difficulties arise in finding a solution. The principal manifestation of this degeneracy is the appearance of infinitely many linear independent solutions. Alternatively, the number of solvability conditions is infinite. To be more specific, there are several arbitrary functions of one variable which belong to a set of linearly independent solutions. The number of these functions depends on the local behavior of the vector field near the domain in which the component \(a_n\) equals 0. The aim of the article under review is to establish solvability conditions for the problem or, in other words, to indicate a topological characteristic which determines the number of arbitrary functions in its solutions. Under some assumptions on the vector field \(l(x)\), the author proves an existence result with the help of the index theory for a pseudodifferential operator (associated with to the original problem) and then gives a correct statement of the problem involving a directional derivative.

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