Vol. 24, No. 3, 1968

Download this article
Download this article. For screen
For printing
Recent Issues
Vol. 331: 1
Vol. 330: 1  2
Vol. 329: 1  2
Vol. 328: 1  2
Vol. 327: 1  2
Vol. 326: 1  2
Vol. 325: 1  2
Vol. 324: 1  2
Online Archive
Volume:
Issue:
     
The Journal
About the journal
Ethics and policies
Peer-review process
 
Submission guidelines
Submission form
Editorial board
Officers
 
Subscriptions
 
ISSN 1945-5844 (electronic)
ISSN 0030-8730 (print)
 
Special Issues
Author index
To appear
 
Other MSP journals
Reflection laws of systems of second order elliptic differential equations in two independent variables with constant coefficients

James McLean Sloss

Vol. 24 (1968), No. 3, 541–575
Abstract

In this paper we shall consider the reflection of solutions of systems of equations

uxx + uyy + Aux +Buy + Cu = 0,
(1)

where u = (u1,u2,,un)T,A,B,C are constant, pairwise commutative n × n matrices, across an analytic arc κ on which the solutions satisfy n analytic linear differential boundary conditions. If the boundary conditions have coefficients which are analyiic in a specific preassigned geometrical region cantaining κ, then we shall show that the solution of (1.1) satisfying such boundary conditions can be extended across κ, provided certain inequalities are satisfied. Moreover, the region into which u can be extended will depend only on the analytic arc κ, the original region, and the coefficients of the boundary conditions; i.e., we shall have reflection “in the large” and the region will not be restricted by the equation.

Mathematical Subject Classification
Primary: 35.46
Milestones
Received: 9 November 1966
Published: 1 March 1968
Authors
James McLean Sloss