A3.18
Part II, 2004
(i) Let and denote the boundary values of functions which are analytic inside and outside the unit disc centred on the origin, respectively. Let denote the boundary of this disc. Suppose that and satisfy the jump condition
where is a constant.
Find the canonical solution of the associated homogeneous Riemann-Hilbert problem. Write down the orthogonality conditions.
(ii) Consider the linear singular integral equation
where denotes the principal value integral.
Show that the associated Riemann-Hilbert problem has the jump condition defined in Part (i) above. Using this fact, find the value of the constant that allows equation to have a solution. For this particular value of find the unique solution .