We show that the singular numbers of single layer potentials on smooth curves asymptotically behave like O(1/n). For the curves with singularities, as long as they contain a smooth sub-arc, the resulting single layer potentials are never trace-class. We provide upper bounds for the operator and the Hilbert-Schmidt norms of single layer potentials on smooth and chord-arc curves. Regarding the injectivity of single layer potentials on planar curves, we prove that among single layer potentials on dilations of a given curve, only one yields a non-injective single layer potential. A criterion for injectivity of single layer potentials on ellipses is given. We establish an isoperimetric inequality for Schatten p−norms of logarithmic potentials over quadrilaterals and its analogue for Newtonian potentials on parallelepipeds.

Neste trabalho obtemos taxas de decaimento para autovalores e valores singulares de operadores integrais gerados por núcleos de quadrado integrável sobre a esfera unitária em \'R POT. m+1\', m 2, sob hipóteses sobre ambos, certas derivadas do núcleo e o operador integral gerado por tais derivadas. Este tipo de problema é comum na literatura, mas as hipóteses geralmente são definidas via diferenciação usual em \'R POT m+1\'. Aqui, as hipóteses são todas definidas via derivada de Laplace-Beltrami, um conceito genuinamente esférico investigado primeiramente por W. Rudin no começo dos anos 50. As taxas de decaimento apresentadas são ótimas e dependem da dimensão m e da ordem de diferenciabilidade usada para definir as condições de suavidade / In this work we obtain decay rates for singular values and eigenvalues of integral operators generated by square integrable kernels on the unit sphere in \'R m+1\', m 2, under assumptions on both, certain derivatives of the kernel and the integral operators generated by such derivatives. This type of problem is common in the literature but the assumptions are usually defined via standard differentiation in \'R POT. m+1\'. Here, the assumptions are all defined via the Laplace-Beltrami derivative, a concept first investigated by W. Rudin in the early fifties and genuinely spherical in nature. The rates we present are optimal and depend on both, the differentiability order used to define the smoothness conditions and the dimension m

Neste trabalho obtemos taxas de decaimento para autovalores e valores singulares de operadores integrais gerados por núcleos de quadrado integrável sobre a esfera unitária em \'R POT. m+1\', m 2, sob hipóteses sobre ambos, certas derivadas do núcleo e o operador integral gerado por tais derivadas. Este tipo de problema é comum na literatura, mas as hipóteses geralmente são definidas via diferenciação usual em \'R POT m+1\'. Aqui, as hipóteses são todas definidas via derivada de Laplace-Beltrami, um conceito genuinamente esférico investigado primeiramente por W. Rudin no começo dos anos 50. As taxas de decaimento apresentadas são ótimas e dependem da dimensão m e da ordem de diferenciabilidade usada para definir as condições de suavidade / In this work we obtain decay rates for singular values and eigenvalues of integral operators generated by square integrable kernels on the unit sphere in \'R m+1\', m 2, under assumptions on both, certain derivatives of the kernel and the integral operators generated by such derivatives. This type of problem is common in the literature but the assumptions are usually defined via standard differentiation in \'R POT. m+1\'. Here, the assumptions are all defined via the Laplace-Beltrami derivative, a concept first investigated by W. Rudin in the early fifties and genuinely spherical in nature. The rates we present are optimal and depend on both, the differentiability order used to define the smoothness conditions and the dimension m