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Aharonov-Bohm Effect and High-Momenta Inverse Scattering for the Klein-Gordon Equation

Mathematical Physics 2016-11-03 v1 math.MP

Abstract

We analyze spin-0 relativistic scattering of charged particles propagating in the exterior, ΛR3\Lambda \subset \mathbb{R}^3, of a compact obstacle KR3K \subset \mathbb{R}^3. The connected components of the obstacle are handlebodies. The particles interact with an electro-magnetic field in Λ\Lambda and an inaccessible magnetic field localized in the interior of the obstacle (through the Aharonov-Bohm effect). We obtain high-momenta estimates, with error bounds, for the scattering operator that we use to recover physical information: We give a reconstruction method for the electric potential and the exterior magnetic field and prove that, if the electric potential vanishes, circulations of the magnetic potential around handles (or equivalently, by Stokes' theorem, magnetic fluxes over transverse sections of handles) of the obstacle can be recovered, modulo 2π2 \pi. We additionally give a simple formula for the high-momenta limit of the scattering operator in terms of certain magnetic fluxes, in the absence of electric potential. If the electric potential does not vanish, the magnetic fluxes on the handles above referred can be only recovered modulo π\pi and the simple expression of the high-momenta limit of the scattering operator does not hold true.

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@article{arxiv.1506.01090,
  title  = {Aharonov-Bohm Effect and High-Momenta Inverse Scattering for the Klein-Gordon Equation},
  author = {Miguel Ballesteros and Ricardo Weder},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.01090},
  year   = {2016}
}