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A nonvariational form of the acoustic single layer potential

Analysis of PDEs 2026-01-06 v4

Abstract

We consider a bounded open subset Ω\Omega of Rn{\mathbb{R}}^n of class C1,αC^{1,\alpha} for some α]0,1[\alpha\in]0,1[ and the space V1,α(Ω)V^{-1,\alpha}(\partial\Omega) of (distributional) normal derivatives on the boundary of α\alpha-H\"{o}lder continuous functions in Ω\Omega that have Laplace operator in the Schauder space with negative exponent C1,α(Ω)C^{-1,\alpha}(\overline{\Omega}). Then we prove those properties of the acoustic single layer potential that are necessary to analyze the Neumann problem for the Helmholtz equation in Ω\Omega with boundary data in V1,α(Ω)V^{-1,\alpha}(\partial\Omega) and solutions in the space of α\alpha-H\"{o}lder continuous functions in Ω\Omega that have Laplace operator in C1,α(Ω)C^{-1,\alpha}(\overline{\Omega}), \textit{i.e.}, in a space of functions that may have infinite Dirichlet integral. Namely, a Neumann problem that does not belong to the classical variational setting.

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@article{arxiv.2504.12349,
  title  = {A nonvariational form of the acoustic single layer potential},
  author = {M. Lanza de Cristoforis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.12349},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2504.11487; text overlap with arXiv:2408.17192

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