@Article{JCM-7-100, author = {}, title = {Coercivity of the Single Layer Heat Potential}, journal = {Journal of Computational Mathematics}, year = {1989}, volume = {7}, number = {2}, pages = {100--104}, abstract = {

The single layer heat potential operator, K, arises in the solution of initial-boundary value problems for the heat equation using boundary integral methods. In this note we show that K maps a certain anisotropic Sobolev space isomorphically onto its dual, and, moreover, satisfies the coercivity inequality $ < K_{q,q} >\geq c\|q\|^2$. We thereby establish the well-posedness of the operator equation $K_q=f$ and provide a basis for the analysis of the discretizations.

}, issn = {1991-7139}, doi = {https://doi.org/}, url = {http://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jcm/9459.html} }