%0 Book Section %B Topics in Operator Theory: Operators, Matrices and Analytic Functions, Vol. 1. Operator Theory: Advances and Applications, 202 %D 2010 %T Singular integral operators on variable Lebesgue spaces over arbitrary Carleson curves %A Karlovich, Alexei Yu. %E Ball, JA %E Bolotnikov, V %E Helton, JW %E Rodman, L %E Spitkovsky, IM %C Basel %I Birkhäuser %P 321-336 %U http://www.springerlink.com/content/wk281h0005423485/ %X

In 1968, Israel Gohberg and Naum Krupnik discovered that local spectra of singular integral operators with piecewise continuous coefficients on Lebesgue spaces \(L^p(\Gamma)\) over Lyapunov curves have the shape of circular arcs. About 25 years later, Albrecht Böttcher and Yuri Karlovich realized that these circular arcs metamorphose to so-called logarithmic leaves with a median separating point when Lyapunov curves metamorphose to arbitrary Carleson curves. We show that this result remains valid in a more general setting of variable Lebesgue spaces \(L^{p(\cdot)}(\Gamma)\) where \(p:\Gamma\to(1,\infty)\) satisfies the Dini-Lipschitz condition. One of the main ingredients of the proof is a new condition for the boundedness of the Cauchy singular integral operator on variable Lebesgue spaces with weights related to oscillations of Carleson curves.