The well-known Falkner--Skan equation is one of the most important equations in laminar boundary layer theory and is used to describe the steady two-dimensional flow of a slightly viscous incompressible fluid past wedge shaped bodies of angles related to $\lambda\pi/2$, where $\lambda\in \mathbb R$ is a parameter involved in the equation. It is known that there exists $\lambda^{*}<0$ such that the equation with suitable boundary conditions has at least one positive solution for each $\lambda\ge \lambda^{*}$ and has no positive solutions for $\lambda<\lambda^{*}$. The known numerical result shows $\lambda^{*}=-0.1988$. In this paper, $\lambda^{*}\in [-0.4,-0.12]$ is proved analytically by establishing a singular integral equation which is equivalent to the Falkner--Skan equation. The equivalence result provides new techniques to study properties and existence of solutions of the Falkner--Skan equation.

In this paper, we study the $L^p$ mapping properties of a class of singular integral operators with rough kernels belonging to certain block spaces. We prove that our operators are bounded on $L^p$ provided that their kernels satisfy a size condition much weaker than that for the classical Calder\'{o}n--Zygmund singular integral operators. Moreover, we present an example showing that our size condition is optimal. As a consequence of our results, we substantially improve a previously known result on certain maximal functions.

Let $x=(x_1, \dots, x_n)\in\rz$ and $\dz_\lz x=(\lz^{\az_1}x_1, \dots,\lz^{\az_n}x_n)$, where $\lz>0$ and $1\le \az_1\le\cdots \le\az_n$. Denote $|\az|=\az_1+\cdots+\az_n$. We characterize those functions $A(x)$ for which the parabolic Calder\'on commutator $$ T_{A}f(x)\equiv \pv \int_{\mathbb{R}^n} K(x-y)[A(x)-A(y)]f(y)\,dy $$ is bounded on $L^2(\mathbb{R}^n)$, where $K(\dz_\lz x)=\lz^{-|\az|-1}K(x)$, $K$ is smooth away from the origin and satisfies a certain cancellation property.

Let $b(t)$ be an $L^\infty$ function on $\bR$, $\Omega (\,y')$ be an $H^1$ function on the unit sphere satisfying the mean zero property (1) and $Q_m(t)$ be a real polynomial on $\bR$ of degree $m$ satisfying $Q_m(0)=0$. We prove that the singular integral operator $$ T_{Q_m,b} (\,f) (x)=p.v. \int_\bR^n b(|y|) \Omega(\,y) |y|^{-n} f \left( x-Q_m (|y|) y' \right) \,dy $$ is bounded in $L^p (\bR^n)$ for $1
Keywords:singular integral, rough kernel, Hardy space
Category:42B20

The spectra of the Toeplitz operators on the weighted Hardy space $H^2(Wd\th/2\pi)$ and the Hardy space $H^p(d\th/2\pi)$, and the singular integral operators on the Lebesgue space $L^2(d\th/2\pi)$ are studied. For example, the theorems of Brown-Halmos type and Hartman-Wintner type are studied.