We use novel integral representations developed by the second author to prove certain rigorous results concerning elliptic boundary value problems in convex polygons. Central to this approach is the so-called global relation, which is a non-local equation in the Fourier space that relates the known boundary data to the unknown boundary values. Assuming that the global relation is satisfied in the weakest possible sense, i.e. in a distributional sense, we prove there exist solutions to Dirichlet, Neumann and Robin boundary value problems with distributional boundary data. We also show that the analysis of the global relation characterises in a straightforward manner the possible existence of both integrable and non-integrable corner-singularities.
We provide a new approach to studying the Dirichlet-Neumann map for Laplaces equation on a convex polygon using Fokas unified method for boundary value problems. By exploiting the complex analytic structure inherent in the unified method, we provide new proofs of classical results using mainly complex analytic techniques. The analysis takes place in a Banach space of complex valued, analytic functions and the methodology is based on classical results from complex analysis. Our approach gives way to new numerical treatments of the underlying boundary value problem and the associated Dirichlet-Neumann map. Using these new results we provide a family of well-posed weak problems associated with the Dirichlet-Neumann map, and prove relevant coercivity estimates so that standard techniques can be applied.
