Transmission problems and spectral theory for singular integral operators on Lipschitz domains

We prove the well-posedness of the transmission problem for the Laplacian across a Lipschitz interface, with optimal non-tangential maximal function estimates, for data in Lebesgue and Hardy spaces on the boundary. As a corollary, we show that the spectral radius of the (adjoint) harmonic double layer potential K∗ in is less than , whenever is a bounded convex domain and 1<p?2.