Singular Perturbation Theory for a Class of Fredholm Integral Equations Arising in Random Fields Estimation Theory

A basic integral equation of random fields estimation theory by the criterion of minimum of variance of the estimation error is of the form Rh = f, where and R(x, y) is a covariance function.The singular perturbation problem we study consists of finding the asymptotic behavior of the solution to the equation as The domain D can be an interval or a domain in Rⁿ, n > 1. The class of operators R is defined by the class of their kernels R(x,y) which solve the equation Q(x, D_x)R(x, y) = P(x, D_x)δ(x − y), where Q(x, D_x) and Px, D_x) are elliptic differential operators.