Solution of a functional equation and applications

DOI10.1006/JFAN.1994.1011MaRDI QIDQ1328328zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yahan Yang

Publication date 17 January 1995

Published in Journal of Functional Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/jfan.1994.1011

zbMATH Keywords

cochleaDirichlet problemfunctional equationgrowth conditionintegral operators reminiscent of Wiener-Hopf operatorsLaplace equationspectral representationvibration

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Functional equations for complex functions (39B32) Toeplitz operators, Hankel operators, Wiener-Hopf operators (47B35)

Review text

The problem of the vibration of the cochlea leads to a functional equation fo the form \((*)\) \(f(x + i) = d(x) f(x - i)\), \(x \in\mathbb{R}\), where \(d(x)\) is a given function and \(f\), a function to be found, is analytic in the strip \(-1<y<1\) in the \(z\)-plane, \(z = x + iy\). In this paper the author shows how to solve equation \((*)\) for a large class of functions \(d\) by solving the Dirichlet problem for the Laplace equation in a strip. First the case that \(d(x)\) is positive and satisfies the growth condition \(| \ln d(x) | < M (1 + | x |)^ m\), \(M,m\) constants, is treated and then it is shown how to reduce the case of complex \(d(x)\) to the case when \(d\) is positive. The given solution method is applied to treat \(d\) given by \[ d(x) = \gamma_ 0 \cdot e^{\beta_ 0 i} \cdot | x | \cdot e^{-2 \pi \alpha (x)i}, \] where \(\gamma_ 0\), \(\beta_ 0\) are constants, \(0<\beta_ 0 < 2\pi\), and \(\alpha (x)\) is the characteristic function of the positive \(x\)-axis. Finally, the author shows how the given solution method can be used to construct explicitly a spectral representation for a class of integral operators reminiscent of Wiener-Hopf operators: \(Pv(t) = e^{-t} \int^ \infty_{- \infty} c(t - s) e^{-s} v(s)ds\), where the function \(c\) is the Fourier inverse of \(d\) in \((*)\).

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