The basic elliptic equations in an equilateral triangle

DOI10.1098/RSPA.2005.1466MaRDI QIDQ5427643zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors G. Dassios, A. S. Fokas

Publication date 21 November 2007

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0412031

zbMATH Keywords

eigenfunctionselliptic equationsequilateral triangleboundary-value problemsDirichletNeumann

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Series solutions to PDEs (35C10) Second-order elliptic equations (35J15)

Abstract: In his deep and prolific investigations of heat diffusion, Lam'e was led to the investigation of the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the Laplace operator in an equilateral triangle. In particular he derived explicit results for the Dirichlet and Neumann cases using an ingenious change of variables. The relevant eigenfunctions are complicated infinite series in terms of his variables. Here we first show that boundary value problems with simple boundary conditions, such as the Dirichlet and the Neumann problems, can be solved in an elementary manner. In particular for these problems, the unknown Neumann and Dirichlet boundary values respectively, can be expressed in terms of a Fourier series. Our analysis is based on the so called global relation, which is an algebraic equation coupling the Dirichlet and the Neumann spectral values on the perimeter of the triangle. As Lam'e correctly pointed out, infinite series are inadequate for expressing the solution of more complicated problems, such as mixed boundary value problems. Here we show, utilizing further the global relation, that such problems can be solved in terms of {it generalized Fourier integrals}.

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