Analysis of two-operator boundary-domain integral equations for variable-coefficient mixed BVP in 2D with general right-hand side

Abstract

The mixed (Dirichlet–Neumann) boundary value problem (BVP) for the linear second-order scalar elliptic differential equation with variable coefficients in a bounded two-dimensional domain is considered. The PDE on the right-hand side belongs to H−1(Ω) or H˜−1(Ω), when neither classical nor canonical conormal derivatives of solutions are well defined. The two-operator approach and appropriate parametrix (Levi function) are used to reduce this BVP to four systems of boundary-domain integral equations (BDIEs). Although the theory of BDIEs in 3D is well developed, the BDIEs in 2D need a special consideration due to their different equivalence properties. As a result, we need to set conditions on the domain or on the associated Sobolev spaces to ensure the invertibility of corresponding parametrix-based integral layer potentials, and hence the unique solvability of BDIEs. The equivalence of the BDIE systems to the original BVP is shown. The invertibility of the associated operators is proved in the corresponding Sobolev spaces.