AbstractWe investigate the spectral properties of the symmetric Abel integral operatorT on L20, 1 with the kernel K(x, y) = |x − y|−1/2. While the tail of the spectrumis well-described by the Dostani´c asymptotic, the operator norm ∥T ∥ (the principaleigenvalue) lacks a closed-form expression. Through high-precision numericaldiscretization and finite-size scaling, we establish the existence of a fundamentalconstant C∞ ≈ 2.6828. We demonstrate that the operator norm for an N × Nquadrature discretization satisfies ∥TN∥ ∼ C∞√N. This constant is proposed as astructural invariant of the “OntoField,” representing the maximum resonant capacityof a localized field segment.
Oleg Glushkov (Mon,) studied this question.