THE CONVERGENCE OF COLLOCATION SOLUTIONS IN CONTINUOUS PIECEWISE POLYNOMIAL SPACES FOR WEAKLY SINGULAR VOLTERRA INTEGRAL EQUATIONS.

Collocation solutions by globally continuous piecewise polynomials to second-kind Volterra integral equations (VIEs) with smooth kernels are uniformly convergent only for certain sets of collocation points. In this paper we establish the analogous convergence theory for VIEs with weakly singular kernels, for both uniform and graded meshes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]