Solution of a Fredholm integral equation of physical interest

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, , Citation F J Fernandez-Velicia et al 1995 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 28 391 DOI 10.1088/0305-4470/28/2/015

0305-4470/28/2/391

Abstract

An integral equation of the Fredholm type which appears in problems of physical interest-like the dielectric response of an inhomogeneous confined quasi-tridimensional electron gas-is studied when the kernel contains an infinite number of dyadic terms. In terms of a representation, this amounts to inverting an infinite matrix. The conditions for the existence of a bound inverse are established and an explicit non-recursive algorithm is developed which can be used in practical calculations to generate successive approximations which converge to the exact answer.

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