Analysis of Two-operator Boundary-Domain Integral Equations for Variable
Coefficient BVPs with General Data
Abstract
The Dirichlet, Neumann and mixed boundary value problems for the linear
second-order scalar elliptic differential equation with variable
coefficient in a bounded three-dimensional domain are considered. The
PDE right-hand side belongs to $H^{-1}(\Omega)$ or
$\widetilde{H}^{-1}(\Omega),$
when neither classical nor canonical co-normal derivatives are well
defined. Using the two-operator approach and appropriate parametrix
(Levi function) each problem is reduced to different systems of boundary
domain integral equations (BDIEs). Equivalence of the BDIEs to the
original BVP, BDIE solvability, solution uniqueness/non-uniqueness, and
as well as invertibility of the BDIE operators are analysed in
appropriate Sobolev (Bessel potential) spaces. It is shown that the BDIE
operators for the Neumann BVP are not invertible, and appropriate
finite-dimensional perturbations are constructed leading to
invertibility of the perturbed operators.