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We prove a modified scattering and asymptotic completeness for the derivative nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. This is the first result proving asymptotic completeness in a quasilinear setting. Our approach combines the method of testing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Allison Byars

We present a method to compute dispersive shock wave solutions of the Korteweg-de Vries equation that emerge from initial data with step-like boundary conditions at infinity. We derive two different Riemann-Hilbert problems associated with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-02 Deniz Bilman , Thomas Trogdon

Generalized impedance boundary conditions are effective, approximate boundary conditions that describe scattering of waves in situations where the wave interaction with the material involves multiple scales. In particular, this includes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-29 Lehel Banjai , Christian Lubich , Joerg Nick

This is a continuation of the authors' previous work (A. Kirsch, Math. Meth. Appl. Sci., 45 (2022): 5737-5773.) on well-posedness of time-harmonic scattering by locally perturbed periodic curves of Dirichlet kind. The scattering interface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-13 Guanghui Hu , Andreas Kirsch

Solutions to the wave equation on de Sitter-Schwarzschild space with smooth initial data on a Cauchy surface are shown to decay exponentially to a constant at temporal infinity, with corresponding uniform decay on the appropriately…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-11-17 Richard Melrose , Antônio Sá Barreto , András Vasy

We consider a time-harmonic wave problem, appearing for example in water-waves and in acoustics, in a setting such that the analysis reduces to the study of a 2D waveguide problem with a Neumann boundary condition. The geometry is symmetric…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-31 Lucas Chesnel , Sergei A. Nazarov , Vincent Pagneux

We present a perturbative technique for modeling the scattering of light by a nonlinear material. This approach eliminates the need for an iterative algorithm to solve the fully coupled nonlinear problem. We demonstrate its effectiveness in…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-01 Jérémy Itier , Gilles Renversez , Frédéric Zolla

This paper is concerned with a numerical method for a 3D coefficient inverse problem with phaseless scattering data. These are multi-frequency data generated by a single direction of the incident plane wave. Our numerical procedure consists…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-16 Michael V. Klibanov , Dinh-Liem Nguyen , Loc H. Nguyen

We consider the cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation posed on the spatial domain $\mathbb{R}\times \mathbb{T}^d$. We prove modified scattering and construct modified wave operators for small initial and final data respectively ($1\leq…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-10 Zaher Hani , Benoit Pausader , Nikolay Tzvetkov , Nicola Visciglia

We consider the Cauchy problem for the Korteweg--de Vries equation with real initial data $q$ that is both $L^1$ and $L^2$ summable and supported on (0,\infty). Using the left reflection coefficient and Hankel operators on the Hardy space…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Alexei Rybkin

Microwave imaging is commonly based on the solution of linearized inverse scattering problems by matched filtering algorithms, i.e., by applying the adjoint of the forward scattering operator to the observation data. A more rigorous…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-23 Matthias M. Saurer , Han Na , Marius Brinkmann , Thomas F. Eibert

We prove scattering for a massless wave equation which is critical in two space dimensions. Our method combines conformal inversion with decay estimates from Struwe's previous work on global existence of a similar equation.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Martin Sack

We consider the solvability of the direct scattering problem of an obliquely incident time-harmonic electromagnetic wave by a piecewise constant inhomogeneous, penetrable and infinitely long cylinder. We prove the existence and uniqueness…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-23 Drossos Gintides , Sotiris Giogiakas , Leonidas Mindrinos

We study an inverse source scattering problem for the Schr\"odinger equation with a quadratic nonlinearity. In general, uniqueness of inverse source problems can not be guaranteed at a fixed energy. Therefore, additional information is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-22 Lei Zhang , Yue Zhao

We reconsider the theory of scattering for the Wave-Schr\"odinger system and more precisely the local Cauchy problem with infinite initial time, which is the main step in the construction of the wave operators. Using a method due to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-03-30 Jean Ginibre , Giorgio Velo

We study the theory of scattering for a Schr"odinger equation in an external time dependent magnetic field in the Coulomb gauge, in space dimension 3. The magnetic vector potential is assumed to satisfy decay properties in time that are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. Ginibre , G. Velo

We give a new sufficient condition for existence and completeness of wave operators in abstract scattering theory. This condition generalises both trace class and smooth approaches to scattering theory. Our construction is based on…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2012-11-29 Alexander Pushnitski , Alexander Volberg

We discuss a time-harmonic inverse scattering problem for the Helmholtz equation with compactly supported penetrable and possibly inhomogeneous scattering objects in an unbounded homogeneous background medium, and we develop a monotonicity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-01 Roland Griesmaier , Bastian Harrach

A one-dimensional generalized nonlinear Schroedinger equation is considered, and the corresponding inverse scattering problem is analyzed when the potential is compactly supported and depends on the wave function. The unique recovery of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tuncay Aktosun , Vassilis G. Papanicolaou , Vassilis Zisis