A Survey on the Boundary Behavior of the Double Layer Potential in Schauder Spaces in the Frame of an Abstract Approach

We provide a summary of the continuity properties of the boundary integral operator corresponding to the double layer potential that is associated to the fundamental solution of a nonhomogeneous second order elliptic differential operator with constant coefficients in Hölder and Schauder spaces on the boundary of a bounded open subset of ℝn. The purpose is two-fold. On one hand we try present in a single paper the known continuity results on the topic with the best known exponents in a Hölder and Schauder space setting and on the other hand we show that many of the properties we present can be deduced by applying results that hold in an abstract setting of metric spaces with a measure that satisfies certain growth conditions that include non-doubling measures as in a series of papers by García-Cuerva and Gatto in the frame of Hölder spaces and later by the author.