On the Inverse and Determinant of Certain Truncated Wiener-Hopf Operators

Abstract

The solution of a problem arising in integrable systems requires sharp asymptotics for the inverses and determinants of truncated Wiener-Hopf operators, both in the regular case (where the non-truncated Wiener-Hopf operator is invertible) and in singular cases. This paper treats two cases where the symbol of the Wiener-Hopf operator has Fisher-Hartwig singularities, one double zero or two simple zeros. We find formulas for the inverse that hold uniformly throughout the underlying interval with very small error, and formulas for the determinant with very small error.