Introduction |
1-3 |
Fredholm Alternative, Exactly Solvable Integral Equations (IE); Elementary Nonlinear IE; Bifurcations |
4-5 |
Volterra IE; Rigorous Theory; Iteration Scheme; Separable Kernels; Laplace Transform; the Tautochrone Problem |
Green's Functions |
6-8 |
Conversion of ODEs to IEs; Potential Scattering; Mechanical Vibrations; Propagation in Nonlinear Medium; Born Approximation and Iteration Series |
Fredholm IEs and Fredholm Theory |
9-10 |
Iteration Scheme; Resolvent Kernel; Fredholm Determinant; Examples |
11-12 |
Exactly Solvable Cases; Fourier Series and Transforms |
13-14 |
Hilbert-Schmidt Theory for Symmetric Kernels; Kernel Eigenvalues; Bounds for Eigenvalues; Kernel Symmetrization; Connection to Sturm-Liouville System |
Wiener-Hopf (W-H) Technique |
15-16 |
Introduction; W-H IE of 1st and 2nd Kind; W-H Sum Equations; Examples; Basics of Solution Technique; Analyticity in Fourier Domain; Liouville's Theorem |
17-19 |
Application to Mixed Boundary Value Problems for Partial Differential Equation (PDEs); Application to Laplace's Equation; Application to Helmholtz's Equation; the Sommerfeld Diffraction Problem; Dual Integral Equations |
20-22 |
Introduction to Theory of Homogeneous W-H IE of 2nd kind; Kernel Factorization; the Heins IE; General Theory of Homogeneous W-H IE; Definition of Kernel Index |
23-24 |
General Theory for Non-homogeneous W-H IE (2nd kind); Significance of Index; Connection to Fredholm Alternative |
Singular Integral Equations of Cauchy Type |
25-26 |
Cauchy-type IE of 1st Kind; the Riemann-Hilbert Problem |
27 |
IE of 2nd Kind (Non-homogeneous) |
28 |
Kernels with Algebraic Singularities; Kernels with Logarithmic Singularities; the Carleman IE |