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We consider layer potentials associated to elliptic operators $Lu=-{\rm div}(A \nabla u)$ acting in the upper half-space $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}_+$ for $n\geq 2$, or more generally, in a Lipschitz graph domain, where the coefficient matrix $A$ is…

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We consider the Dirichlet and Neumann eigenvalues of the Laplacian for a planar, simply connected domain. The eigenvalues admit a characterization in terms of a layer potential of the Helmholtz equation. Using the exterior conformal mapping…

In this paper we construct layer potentials for elliptic differential operators using the Lax-Milgram theorem, without recourse to the fundamental solution; this allows layer potentials to be constructed in very general settings. We then…