Harmonic integrals on domains with edges

• Main Author: Tarkhanov, Nikolai
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Universität Potsdam 2004
• Subjects: domains with singularities; de Rham complex; Neumann problem; Hodge theory; Mathematics
• Online Access: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-26800; http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2008/2680/

We study the Neumann problem for the de Rham complex in a bounded domain of Rn with singularities on the boundary. The singularities may be general enough, varying from Lipschitz domains to domains with cuspidal edges on the boundary. Following Lopatinskii we reduce the Neumann problem to a singular integral equation of the boundary. The Fredholm solvability of this equation is then equivalent to the Fredholm property of the Neumann problem in suitable function spaces. The boundary integral equation is explicitly written and may be treated in diverse methods. This way we obtain, in particular, asymptotic expansions of harmonic forms near singularities of the boundary.