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The domain of analyticity of Dirichlet–Neumann operators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2010

Bei Hu
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA (hu.1@nd.edu)
David P. Nicholls
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA (nicholls@math.uic.edu)

Abstract

Dirichlet–Neumann operators arise in many applications in the sciences, and this has inspired a number of studies on their analytical properties. In this paper we further investigate the analyticity properties of Dirichlet–Neumann operators as functions of the boundary shape. In particular, we study the size of the disc of convergence of their Taylor-series representation. For this we use a complexification technique which requires a novel reformulation of the problem, coupled with methods for systems of elliptic partial differential equations. Numerical results to illustrate our theoretical conclusions are presented.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 2010

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