Solving Exterior Boundary Value Problems for the Laplace Equation

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (7) ◽  
pp. 890-899
Author(s):  
M. P. Galanin ◽  
D. L. Sorokin
Author(s):  
A. S. Fokas ◽  
M. L. Glasser

By using conformal mappings, it is possible to express the solution of certain boundary-value problems for the Laplace equation in terms of a single integral involving the given boundary data. We show that such explicit formulae can be used to obtain novel identity for special functions. A convenient tool for deriving this type of identity is the so-called global relation , which has appeared recently in a wide range of boundary-value problems. As a concrete application, we analyse the Neumann boundary-value problem for the Laplace equation in the exterior of the Hankel contour, which appears in the definition of both the gamma and the Riemann zeta functions. By using the explicit solution of this problem, we derive a number of novel identities involving the hypergeometric function. Also, we point out an interesting connection between the solution of the above Neumann boundary-value problem for a particular set of Neumann data and the Riemann hypothesis.


Author(s):  
John F. Ahner ◽  
John S. Lowndes

AbstractAlgorithms are developed by means of which certain connected pairs of Fredholm integral equations of the first and second kinds can be converted into Fredholm integral equations of the second kind. The methods are then used to obtain the solutions of two different sets of triple integral equations tht occur in mixed boundary value problems involving Laplace' equation and the wave equation respectively.


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