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The stationary, axisymmetric reduction of the vacuum Einstein equations, the so-called Ernst equation, is an integrable nonlinear PDE in two dimensions. There now exists a general method for analyzing boundary value problems for integrable…
For a stationary and axisymmetric spacetime, the vacuum Einstein field equations reduce to a single nonlinear PDE in two dimensions called the Ernst equation. By solving this equation with a {\it Dirichlet} boundary condition imposed along…
We study boundary value problems posed in a semistrip for the elliptic sine-Gordon equation, which is the paradigm of an elliptic integrable PDE in two variables. We use the method introduced by one of the authors, which provides a…
The collision of two plane gravitational waves in Einstein's theory of relativity can be described mathematically by a Goursat problem for the hyperbolic Ernst equation in a triangular domain. We use the integrable structure of the Ernst…
The vector Riemann-Hilbert problem is analyzed when the entries of its matrix coefficient are meromorphic and almost periodic functions. Three cases for the meromorphic functions, when they have (i) a finite number of poles and zeros…
Riemann-Hilbert problems are jump problems for holomorphic functions along given interfaces. They arise in various contexts, e.g. in the asymptotic study of certain nonlinear partial differential equations and in the asymptotic analysis of…
The Riemann-Hilbert boundary value problem is studied for a class of planar complex vector fields $L$ in a simply connected open set $\Om\subset\R^2$. The first integrals of $L$ are used to reduce the problem into a collection of classical…
With no criteria of the index type, it is proved the existence of a solution for the Riemann-Hilbert problem in the fairly general setting of arbitrary Jordan domains, measurable coefficients and measurable boundary data. The theorem is…
This paper is devoted to Riemann-Hilbert problems with constraints. We obtain results characterizing the existence of solutions as well as the dimension of the solution space in terms of certain indices. As an application, we show how such…
An inverse problem of elasticity of $n$ elastic inclusions embedded into an elastic half-plane is analyzed. The boundary of the half-plane is free of traction. The half-plane and the inclusions are subjected to antiplane shear, and the…
We study the existence of solutions of mixed Riemann-Hilbert or Cherepanov boundary value problem with simply connected fibers on the unit disk ${\Delta}$. Let $L$ be a closed arc on $\partial{\Delta}$ with the end points $\omega_{-1},…
We show that the class of hyperelliptic solutions to the Ernst equation (the stationary axisymmetric Einstein equations in vacuum) previously discovered by Korotkin and Neugebauer and Meinel can be derived via Riemann-Hilbert techniques.…
By employing a novel generalization of the inverse scattering transform method known as the unified transform or Fokas method, it can be shown that the solution of certain physically significant boundary value problems for the elliptic…
We develop the theory of Riemann-Hilbert problems necessary for the results in part one of this series of papers. In particular, we obtain solutions for a family of non-linear Riemann-Hilbert problems through classical contraction…
A fast and accurate numerical method for the solution of scalar and matrix Wiener--Hopf problems is presented. The Wiener--Hopf problems are formulated as Riemann--Hilbert problems on the real line, and a numerical approach developed for…
This is the first in a series of papers on the construction of explicit solutions to the stationary axisymmetric Einstein equations which describe counter-rotating disks of dust. These disks can serve as models for certain galaxies and…
We focus on the Clifford-algebra valued variable coefficients Riemann-Hilbert boundary value problems $\big{(}$for short RHBVPs$\big{)}$ for axially monogenic functions on Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^{n+1},n\in \mathbb{N}$. With the help of…
The vector-matrix Riemann boundary value problem for the unit disk with piecewise constant matrix is constructively solved by a method of functional equations. By functional equations we mean iterative functional equations with shifts…
This work addresses Riemann-Hilbert boundary value problems (RHBVPs) for null solutions to iterated perturbed Dirac operators over bi-axially symmetric domains in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with Clifford-algebra-valued variable coefficients. We first…
In this paper the Riemann-Hilbert problem, with jump supported on a appropriate curve on the complex plane with a finite endpoint at the origin, is used for the study of corresponding matrix biorthogonal polynomials associated with Laguerre…