Let $u$ be a solution of the Dirichlet problem for the Laplace equation $\Delta u=0$ in a simply connected domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^2$ with $C^1$-smooth boundary $\Gamma$ of length $2\pi$. To be more precise: $\partial^2 u/\partial x^2+\partial^2 u/\partial y^2=0$ in $\Omega$, $u(P_s)=F(s)$, $P_s\in \Gamma$, where $s\in \mathbb{T}\overset{\rm def}{=}{\mathbb{R}}/{2\pi}$ is the natural parameter on $\Gamma$ (the arc length $\smile\! P_0P_s$ on the curve $\Gamma$ measured in the positive direction from some point $P_0$ to the point $P_s$), and the function $F\in C^1(\mathbb{T})$ is given by the Fourier series
where $\nu$ is the unit outward normal vector to the curve $\Gamma$.
If the domain $\Omega_\varepsilon$ differs from $\Omega$ only in that its boundary $\Gamma_\varepsilon=\partial\Omega_\varepsilon$ is analytic and its Hausdorff $C^1$-distance differs from that of $\Gamma$ by a quantity of order $\varepsilon>0$, then the operators $\mathcal D\mathcal R$ for $\Omega_\varepsilon$ and $\Omega$ differ in the $C^1$-metric by the same order. So we can assume that the curve $\Gamma$ is analytic. Under this assumption explicit numerically realizable formulae for the univalent mapping
of a neighbourhood $V_{\mathbb{T}}$ of the unit circle $\mathbb{T}=\{\rho=1,\,\theta\in\mathbb{R}/2\pi\}$ to a neighbourhood $V_{\Gamma}\ni \zeta=\rho e^{i\theta}$ of the curve $\Gamma\subset\mathbb{R}^2\simeq\mathbb C\ni z=x+iy$ that is an isometry on $\mathbb T$ are presented in [2]. The isometry property
plays a key role in the construction of formulae for the operator (2).
Consider a curve $\gamma=z(\mathcal C)\subset V_{\Gamma}$, where $\mathcal C=\{0<|\zeta|=r\}$, and $r$ is small. Let $g$ be the trace on $\gamma$ of the solution $u$ of the original Dirichlet problem. We set $f\colon\mathbb{T}\ni\theta\mapsto f(\theta)= g(z)\big|_{z=z(re^{i\theta})\in\gamma}$. The Fourier series of this periodic function has the form
which is harmonic in the annulus $V_{\mathbb{T}}=\{r<\rho<1;\ \theta\in\mathbb{T}\}$, satisfies the boundary conditions $U(1,\theta)=F(\theta)$ and $U(r,\theta)=f(\theta)$.
Theorem 1. For the Dirichlet–Neumann operator $\mathcal D{\mathcal N}\bigl(u\big|_\Gamma\bigr)\overset{\rm def}{=} (\partial u/\partial\nu)\big|_\Gamma$,
Approximating the integral in (8) by a sum (for details, see [4]) and setting, in succession, $\tau=t_1,\dots,t_n$, we obtain a system of linear algebraic equations, from which we find an approximation to $\mu$, and, correspondingly, an approximation to the solution of the original Dirichlet problem.
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A numerical realization of the Robin1–Robin2 operator, that is, the operator
can be found from that for the above Dirichlet–Robin2 problem by means the construction (see, for example, [5]) of the solution of the $\gamma$-Robin1–Dirichlet problem $(\alpha_1u+\beta_1\,\partial u/\partial\nu)\big|_{\Gamma}\mapsto u\big|_{\gamma}$.
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Another particular case of Poincaré–Steklov operators is the operator $\mathcal G_{\mathcal M}\mathcal R$, where the Grinberg–Mayergoiz operator $ \mathcal G_{\mathcal M}$ [6], [7] is defined for $-1\leqslant\sigma<1$ by the conditions
Here the value at the point $P_s^+$ (or at $P_s^-$) is defined as the limit value at the point $P_s\in \Gamma$ along the outward (inward) normal vector $\nu$ to the curve $\Gamma$. Explicit formulae for the traces $u\big|_{\gamma}$ and $u\big|_{\Gamma}$ of the solution of problem (9) have been indicated above for the Dirichlet problem, that is, for $\sigma=-1$; for $|\sigma|<1$ formulae of the same type in terms of potentials with density satisfying an integral equation of the second kind can be found in [7]. Proceeding as in Theorem 1 we obtain numerically realizable formulae for $\mathcal G_{\mathcal M}\mathcal R(F)$.
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Citation:
A. S. Demidov, “On explicit numerically realizable formulae for Poincaré–Steklov operators”, Russian Math. Surveys, 78:6 (2023), 1158–1160