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Do corners always scatter?

Analysis of PDEs 2017-10-04 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We study time harmonic scattering for the Helmholtz equation in Rn. We show that certain penetrable scatterers with rectangular corners scatter every incident wave nontrivially. Even though these scatterers have interior transmission eigenvalues, the relative scattering (a.k.a. far field) operator has a trivial kernel and cokernel at every real wavenumber.

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@article{arxiv.1211.1848,
  title  = {Do corners always scatter?},
  author = {Eemeli Blåsten and Lassi Päivärinta and John Sylvester},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.1848},
  year   = {2017}
}
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