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Inverse scattering problem is discussed for the Maxwell's equations. A reduction of the Maxwell's system to a new Fredholm second-kind integral equation with a {\it scalar weakly singular kernel} is given for electromagnetic (EM) wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-06-27 A. G. Ramm

We prove scattering for the defocusing energy-critical non-linear wave equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions outside two strictly convex obstacles in dimension three. This is the first large data scattering result for such an equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-20 David Lafontaine , Camille Laurent

This paper gives a note on an application of the enclosure method to an inverse obstacle scattering problem governed by the Helmholtz equation in two dimensions. It is shown that one can uniquely determine the convex hull of an unknown…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-09-21 Masaru Ikehata

Inverse scattering focuses on recovering unknown scatterers from wave measurements. A fundamental challenge is determining whether an inverse obstacle problem can be resolved from a single far-field measurement, a task particularly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Huaian Diao , Hongyu Liu , Longyue Tao

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 consider the problem of reconstructing the shape of an impenetrable sound-soft obstacle from scattering measurements. The input data is assumed to be the far-field pattern generated when a plane wave impinges on an unknown obstacle from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Carlos Borges , Leslie Greengard

An obstacle $K \subset \R^n,\: n \geq 3,$ $n$ odd, is called trapping if there exists at least one generalized bicharacteristic $\gamma(t)$ of the wave equation staying in a neighborhood of $K$ for all $t \geq 0.$ We examine the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-06-16 Vesselin Petkov , Luchezar Stoyanov

Let $\Delta_{\alpha,Y}$ be the bounded from above self-adjoint realization in $L^{2}({\mathbb R}^{3})$ of the Laplacian with $n$ point scatterers placed at $Y=\{y_{1},\dots,y_{n}\}\subset{\mathbb R}^{3}$, the parameters…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-10-20 Andrea Mantile , Andrea Posilicano

This work is concerned with an inverse elastic scattering problem of identifying the unknown rigid obstacle embedded in an open space filled with a homogeneous and isotropic elastic medium. A Newton-type iteration method relying on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Yan Chang , Yukun Guo , Hongyu Liu , Deyue Zhang

The paper concerns scattering of plane waves by a bounded obstacle with complex valued impedance boundary conditions. We study the spectrum of the Neumann-to-Dirichlet operator for small wave numbers and long wave asymptotic behavior of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-11-09 Evgeny Lakshtanov , Boris Vainberg

It is proved that a general polyhedral perfect conducting obstacle in $\mathbb{R}^3$, possibly consisting of finitely many solid polyhedra, is uniquely determined by the far-field pattern corresponding to a single incident wave. This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Hongyu Liu

We consider the scattering problem governed by the Helmholtz equation with inhomogeneity in both `conductivity' in the divergence form and `potential' in the lower order term. The support of the inhomogeneity is assumed to contain a convex…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-14 Fioralba Cakoni , Jingni Xiao

This paper is concerned with the inverse problem of scattering of time-harmonic acoustic waves by an inhomogeneous penetrable obstacle in a piecewise homogeneous medium. The well-posedness of the direct problem is first established by using…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-16 Xiaodong Liu , Bo Zhang

This paper is concerned with the uniqueness in inverse acoustic and electromagnetic scattering with phaseless near-field data generated by superpositions of two incident plane waves at a fixed frequency. It can be proved that the unknown…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-25 Xiaoxu Xu

Consider an exterior problem of the three-dimensional elastic wave equation, which models the scattering of a time-harmonic plane wave by a rigid obstacle. The scattering problem is reformulated into a boundary value problem by introducing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-07 Peijun Li , Xiaokai Yuan

This paper considers the inverse problem of scattering of time-harmonic acoustic and electromagnetic plane waves by a bounded, inhomogeneous, penetrable obstacle with embedded objects inside. A new method is proposed to prove that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-14 Jiaqing Yang , Bo Zhang , Haiwen Zhang

In this paper, we consider inverse time-harmonic acoustic and electromagnetic scattering from locally perturbed rough surfaces in three dimensions. The scattering interface is supposed to be the graph of a Lipschitz continuous function with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-24 Yu Zhao , Guanghui Hu , Baoqiang Yan

We consider an inverse acoustic scattering problem in simultaneously recovering an embedded obstacle and its surrounding inhomogeneous medium by formally determined far-field data. It is shown that the knowledge of the scattering amplitude…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Hongyu Liu , Xiaodong Liu

An inverse obstacle scattering problem for the electromagnetic wave governed by the Maxwell system over a finite time interval is considered. It is assumed that the wave satisfies the Leontovich boundary condition on the surface of an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-22 Masaru Ikehata

After publishing his recent paper in SIAM J. Appl. Math, 74, 392-410, 2014 the author has realized that actually he has addressed in that paper, for the first time, a long standing open question being unaware about this. This question is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-04-15 Michael V. Klibanov