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Full asymptotics and Laurent series of layer potentials for Laplace's equation on the half‐space
Author(s) -
Fritzsch Karsten
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
mathematische nachrichten
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.913
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1522-2616
pISSN - 0025-584X
DOI - 10.1002/mana.201800145
Subject(s) - mathematics , laurent series , mathematical analysis , space (punctuation) , domain (mathematical analysis) , lipschitz continuity , boundary (topology) , gravitational singularity , laplace's equation , asymptotic expansion , series (stratigraphy) , jump , laplace transform , pure mathematics , boundary value problem , paleontology , philosophy , linguistics , physics , quantum mechanics , biology
We combine the calculus of conormal distributions, in particular the Pull‐Back and Push‐Forward Theorems, with the method of layer potentials to solve the Dirichlet and Neumann problems on half‐spaces. We obtain full asymptotic expansions for the solutions, show that boundary layer potential operators are elements of the full b ‐calculus and give a new proof of the classical jump relations. En route, we improve Siegel and Talvila's growth estimates for the modified layer potentials in the case of polyhomogeneous boundary data. The techniques we use here can be generalised to geometrically more complex settings, as for instance the exterior domain of touching domains or domains with fibred cusps. This work is intended to be a first step in a longer program aiming at understanding the method of layer potentials in the setting of certain non‐Lipschitz singularities that can be resolved in the sense of Melrose using manifolds with corners and at applying a matching asymptotics ansatz to singular perturbations of related problems.