“…(0.1) one uses spline approximations for the unknown function x on F. The two most popular discretization schemes are the Galerkin and collocation methods. If F is a closed curve and c and d are continuous functions, then convergence and error estimates for Galerkin and collocation methods using smooth polynomial splines follow from recent studies by Arnold, Saranen, Stephan and Wendland in [4,23,27], by Nedelec in [14] and by Elschner, Schmidt and the authors in [8,16,17,19,21,22,24,25,26] (see also the surveys just given by Elschner, Pr6gdorf [18] and by Wendland [29]). Convergence results on the spline collocation method in the space L 2 for Eq.…”