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Inverse Scattering for the Laplace operator with boundary conditions on Lipschitz surfaces

Analysis of PDEs 2020-01-08 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We provide a general scheme, in the combined frameworks of Mathematical Scattering Theory and Factorization Method, for inverse scattering for the couple of self-adjoint operators (Δ~,Δ)(\widetilde\Delta,\Delta), where Δ\Delta is the free Laplacian in L2(R3)L^{2}({\mathbb R}^{3}) and Δ~\widetilde\Delta is one of its singular perturbations, i.e., such that the set {uH2(R3)dom(Δ~):Δu=Δ~u}\{u\in H^{2}({\mathbb R}^{3})\cap \text{dom}(\widetilde\Delta)\, :\, \Delta u=\widetilde\Delta u\} is dense. Typically Δ~\widetilde\Delta corresponds to a self-adjoint realization of the Laplace operator with some kind of boundary conditions imposed on a null subset; in particular our results apply to standard, either separating or semi-transparent, boundary conditions at Γ=Ω\Gamma=\partial\Omega, where ΩR3\Omega\subset{\mathbb R}^{3} is a bounded Lipschitz domain. Similar results hold in the case the boundary conditions are assigned only on ΣΓ\Sigma\subset\Gamma, a relatively open subset with a Lipschitz boundary. We show that either Γ\Gamma or Σ\Sigma are determined by the knowledge of the Scattering Matrix, equivalently of the Far Field Operator, at a single frequency.

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@article{arxiv.1901.09289,
  title  = {Inverse Scattering for the Laplace operator with boundary conditions on Lipschitz surfaces},
  author = {Andrea Mantile and Andrea Posilicano},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.09289},
  year   = {2020}
}

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Final version, to appear in Inverse Problems