Singular limits of certain Hilbert-Schmidt integral operators

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Authors M. Bertola, Elliot Blackstone, A. Katsevich, Alexander Tovbis

Publication date 18 October 2022

Abstract: In this paper we study the small-$lambda$ spectral asymptotics of an integral operator $mathscrK$ defined on two multi-intervals $J$ and $E$, when the multi-intervals touch each other (but their interiors are disjoint). The operator $mathscrK$ is closely related to the multi-interval Finite Hilbert Transform (FHT). This case can be viewed as a singular limit of self-adjoint Hilbert-Schmidt integral operators with so-called integrable kernels, where the limiting operator is still bounded, but has a continuous spectral component. The regular case when $extdist(J,E)>0$, and $mathscrK$ is of the Hilbert-Schmidt class, was studied in an earlier paper by the authors. The main assumption in this paper is that $U=JcupE$ is a single interval. We show that the eigenvalues of $mathscrK$, if they exist, do not accumulate at $lambda=0$. Combined with the results in an earlier paper by the authors, this implies that $H_p$, the subspace of discontinuity (the span of all eigenfunctions) of $mathscrK$, is finite dimensional and consists of functions that are smooth in the interiors of $J$ and $E$. We also obtain an approximation to the kernel of the unitary transformation that diagonalizes $mathscrK$, and obtain a precise estimate of the exponential instability of inverting $mathscrK$. Our work is based on the method of Riemann-Hilbert problem and the nonlinear steepest-descent method of Deift and Zhou.

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