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Wiener-Hopf factorisation on unit circle: some examples from discrete scattering

Mathematical Physics 2019-12-13 v1 math.MP Classical Physics

Abstract

I discuss some problems featuring scattering due to discrete edges on certain structures. These problems stem from linear difference equations and the underlying basic issue can be mapped to Wiener-Hopf factorization on an annulus in the complex plane. In most of these problems, the relevant factorization involves a scalar function, while in some cases a nxn matrix kernel, with n>=2, appears. For the latter, I give examples of two non-trivial cases where it can be further reduced to a scalar problem but in general this is not the case. Some of the problems that I have presented in this paper can be also interpreted as discrete analogues of well-known scattering problems, notably a few of which are still open, in Wiener-Hopf factorization on an infinite strip in complex plane.

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@article{arxiv.1912.05797,
  title  = {Wiener-Hopf factorisation on unit circle: some examples from discrete scattering},
  author = {Basant Lal Sharma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.05797},
  year   = {2019}
}
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