A PROJECTION METHOD FOR VOLTERRA INTEGRAL EQUATIONS IN WEIGHTED SPACES OF CONTINUOUS FUNCTIONS

This paper is concerned with the numerical treatment of second kind Volterra integral equations whose integrands present diagonal and/or endpoint algebraic singularities. A projection method based on an optimal interpolating operator is developed in the spaces of weighted continuous functions endowed with the supremum norm. In such spaces, the uniqueness of the solution is discussed and suitable conditions are determined to assure the stability and the convergence of the method. Several numerical tests are presented to show the efficiency of the method and the agreement with the theoretical estimates.