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Plemelj formulas (Definition)

Let $\psi(\zeta)$ be a density function of a complex variable satisfying the Hölder condition (the Lipschitz condition of order $\alpha$ )1 on a smooth closed contour $C$ in the integral

$\displaystyle \Psi(z)=\frac{1}{2\pi i}\int_C\frac{\psi(\zeta)}{\zeta-z}d\zeta,$ (1)

then the limits $\Psi^+(t)$ and $\Psi^-(t)$ as $z$ approaches an arbitrary point $t$ on $C$ from the interior and the exterior of $C$ , respectively, are
$\displaystyle \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \Psi^+(t) \equiv \frac{1}{2}\psi(t)+ \f... ...t)+ \frac{1}{2\pi i}\int_C\frac{\psi(\zeta)}{\zeta-t}d\zeta. \end{array}\right.$ (2)

These are the Plemelj[1] formulas 2 and the improper integrals in (2) must be interpreted as Cauchy's principal values.

Bibliography

1
J. Plemelj, Monatshefte für Mathematik und Physik, vol. 19, pp. 205- 210, 1908.
2
N. I. Muskhelishvili, Singular Integral Equations, Groningen: Noordhoff (based on the second Russian edition published in 1946), 1953.



Footnotes

...1
A function $f(\zeta)$ satisfies the Hölder condition on a smooth curve $C$ if for every $\zeta_1,\zeta_2\in C$ $|f(\zeta_2)-f(\zeta_1)|\leq M|\zeta_2-\zeta_1|^\alpha$ , $M>0$ , $0<\alpha\leq 1$ . It is clear that the Hölder condition is a weaker restriction than a bounded derivative for $f(\zeta)$ .
...2
cf.[2], where restrictions that Plemelj made, were relaxed.



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AMS MSC30D10 (Functions of a complex variable :: Entire and meromorphic functions, and related topics :: Representations of entire functions by series and integrals)

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