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Boundary value problems associated with generalized Q-holomorphic functions
Boundary Value Problems volume 2013, Article number: 33 (2013)
Abstract
In this work, we discuss Riemann-Hilbert and its adjoint homogeneous problem associated with generalized Q-holomorphic functions and investigate the solvability of the Riemann-Hilbert problem.
Introduction
Douglis [1] and Bojarskiĭ [2] developed an analog of analytic functions for elliptic systems in the plane of the form
where w is an vector and q is an quasi-diagonal matrix. Also, Bojarskiĭ assumed that all eigenvalues of q are less than 1. Such systems are natural ones to consider because they arise from the reduction of general elliptic systems in the plane to a standard canonical form. Subsequently Douglis and Bojarkii’s theory has been used to study elliptic systems in the form
and the solutions of such equations were called generalized (or pseudo) hyperanalytic functions. Work in this direction appears in [3–5]. These results extend the generalized (or ‘pseudo’) analytic function theory of Vekua [6] and Bers [7]. Also, classical boundary value problems for analytic functions were extended to generalized hyperanalytic functions. A good survey of the methods encountered in a hyperanalytic case may be found in [8, 9], also see [10].
In [11], Hile noticed that what appears to be the essential property of elliptic systems in the plane for which one can obtain a useful extension of analytic function theory is the self-commuting property of the variable matrix Q, which means
for any two points , in the domain of Q. Further, such a Q matrix cannot be brought into a quasi-diagonal form of Bojarskiĭ by a similarity transformation. So, Hile [11] attempted to extend the results of Douglis and Bojarskiĭ to a wider class of systems in the same form with equation (1). If is self-commuting in and if has no eigenvalues of magnitude 1 for each z in , then Hile called the system (1) the generalized Beltrami system and the solutions of such a system were called Q-holomorphic functions. Later in [12, 13], using Vekua and Bers techniques, a function theory is given for the equation
where the unknown is an complex matrix, is a self-commuting complex matrix with dimension and for . and are commuting with Q. Solutions of such an equation were called generalized Q-holomorphic functions.
In this work, as in a complex case, following Vekua (see [[6], pp.228-236]), we investigate the necessary and sufficient condition of solvability of the Riemann-Hilbert problem for equation (2).
Solvability of Riemann-Hilbert problems
In a regular domain G, we consider the problem
We refer to this problem as boundary value problem (A). Where the unknown is an complex matrix-valued function, is a Hölder-continuous function which is a self-commuting matrix with and for . and are commuting with Q, which is
It is assumed, moreover, that Q is commuting with and is commuting with Q, where , . In respect of the data of problem (A), we also assume that A, B and and . If , , we have homogeneous problem ().
We refer to the adjoint, homogeneous problem (A) as (); it is given by
where ϕ is a generating solution for the generalized Beltrami system ([[11], p.109]), , and ds is the arc length differential. From the Green identity for Q-holomorphic functions (see [[11], p.113]), we have
where is commuting with Q. For and , this becomes
Since satisfies the boundary condition
we have
where ϰ is a real matrix commuting with Q.
The solutions to problem () may be represented by means of fundamental kernels in terms of a real, matrix density ϰ as
see ([[14], p.543]). In (9), P is a constant matrix defined by
called P-value for the generalized Beltrami system [11]. Since ϰ is a real matrix commuting with Q, inserting the expression (9) into the boundary condition (7), we have
where
The integral in (10) is to be taken in the Cauchy principal value sense. If we denote this equation in an operator form by and its adjoint by , then it may be easily demonstrated that the index of (10) is . Here k and are dimensions of null spaces of and respectively. If is a complete system of solutions of (10), putting each of this into (9), we obtain the solutions of problem (). However, it is possible that some of these solutions may turn out to be trivial solutions, which occurs when takes on the boundary values of a Q-holomorphic function on each component of boundary contours in which is, moreover, Q-holomorphic in the domain bounded by the closed contour . Let be solutions of equation (10) to which linearly independent solutions (see [15]) of problem () correspond, then the remaining solutions satisfy the boundary condition of the form
Here are meant to be Q-holomorphic functions outside of and . Hence the Q-holomorphic functions satisfy the homogeneous boundary conditions
In a complex case, Vekua refers to problems of this type as being concomitant to () and denotes them by (). Let be a number of linearly independent solutions of this problem. Obviously, .
Let us now return to the discussion of problem (A), where we assume that in what follows. The solutions of this problem may be expressed in terms of the generalized Cauchy kernel as follows:
where
(see [[14], p.543]). From the Plemelj formulas, it is seen that the density μ must satisfy the integral equation
where
Problem () concomitant to problem () has the boundary condition on Γ, where Φ is Q-holomorphic outside and . Denoting the numbers of linearly independent solutions of () and () by ℓ and respectively, we have . In order that (13) is solvable, it is necessary and sufficient that the nonhomogeneous data satisfy the auxiliary conditions
where are solutions to integral equation (10). These solutions may be broken up into two groups and such that for and for , where . Here and are solutions of problems () and () respectively. The condition (15) for given by (14) becomes
for , whereas for , we have
Consequently, the conditions (15) are seen to hold if (6) (with ) holds. From the above discussion, one obtains a Fredholm-type theorem for problem (A).
Theorem 1 Non-homogeneous boundary problem (A) is solvable if and only if the condition (6) is satisfied, being an arbitrary solution of adjoint homogeneous boundary problem ().
This theorem immediately implies the following.
Theorem 2 Non-homogeneous boundary problem (A) is solvable for an arbitrary right-hand side if and only if adjoint homogeneous problem () has no solution.
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Hızlıyel, S. Boundary value problems associated with generalized Q-holomorphic functions. Bound Value Probl 2013, 33 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1186/1687-2770-2013-33
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