Abstract:
We consider two classes of problems for a strongly elliptic second-order system in a bounded n-dimensional domain with Lipschitz boundary, n⩾2. For simplicity, we assume that the domain Ω=Ω+ lies on the standard torus Tn and that the Dirichlet and Neumann problems in Ω+ and in the complementary domain Ω− are uniquely solvable.
1. Mixed problems. In the simplest case, the boundary Γ of Ω is divided into two parts Γ1 and Γ2 by a closed Lipschitz (n−1)-dimensional Lipschitz surface, with the Dirichlet and Neumann conditions on Γ1 and on Γ2 respectively. The problem is uniquely solvable in the simplest spaces Hs (with the solution in H1(Ω)) and (the regularity result) in some more general Bessel potential spaces Hsp and Besov spaces Bsp. Equations on Γ are obtained equivalent to the problem. For this, we use analogs N1 and D2 of the Neumann-to-Dirichlet operator N and the Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator D on parts Γ1 and Γ2 of Γ.
The operators N1 and D2 are connected with Poincaré–Steklov-type spectral problems with spectral parameter on a part of Γ. In the selfadjoint case, the eigenfunctions form a basis in the corresponding spaces, and in the non-selfadjoint case they form a complete system. If Γ is almost smooth (smooth outside a closed subset of zero measure), then the eigenvalues of self-adjoint problems have natural asymptotics.
2. Problems with boundary or transmission conditions on a non-closed surface S, which is a part of a closed Lipschitz surface Γ. In elasticity problems, S is a crack, and in problems of acoustics and electrodynamics, it is a non-closed screen. The results are similar to those indicated above. The corresponding operators are restrictions AS to S of the single layer potential-type operator A and HS to S of the hypersingular operator H on Γ. For the corresponding spectral problems, the results are similar to those indicated above.