Abstract:
To establish a criterion for the invertibility of integral operators of the second kind in terms of the kernel of the integral part of this operator, a special factorization method is applied. We present a transformation reducing the problem of the invertibility of such an operator to that of the inversion of an integral operator of the second kind with contracting integral part.
Keywords:criterion for the invertibility of integral operators, integral operator of the second kind, contraction operator, invertibility conditions.