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We consider the scattering of time-harmonic plane waves by a compactly supported inhomogeneous scattering obstacle governed by the Helmholtz equation. Given far field observations of the scattered fields corresponding to plane wave incident…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Roland Griesmaier , Bastian Harrach , Jianli Xiang

We study the backward scatterings of plane waves by reciprocal scatterers and reveal that $n$-fold ($n\geq3$) rotation symmetry is sufficient to secure invariant backscattering for arbitrarily-polarized incident plane waves. It is further…

Optics · Physics 2021-01-27 Weijin Chen , Qingdong Yang , Yuntian Chen , Wei Liu

In this paper we prove that for stable semi-discretizations of the wave equation for the WaveHoltz iteration is guaranteed to converge to an approximate solution of the corresponding frequency domain problem, if it exists. We show that for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Amit Rotem , Olof Runborg , Daniel Appelo

This paper is concerned with inverse scattering problems of determining the support of an isotropic and homogeneous penetrable body from knowledge of multi-static far-field patterns in acoustics and in linear elasticity. The normal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-11 Chun Liu , Guanghui Hu , Jianli Xiang , Jiayi Zhang

We consider fractional diffusion-wave equations with source term which is represented in a form of a product of a temporal function and a spatial function. We prove the uniqueness for inveres source problem of determining spatially varying…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Masahiro Yamamoto

The time-frequency integrals and the two-dimensional stationary phase method are applied to study the electromagnetic waves radiated by moving modulated sources in dispersive media. We show that such unified approach leads to explicit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-11 Gennadiy Burlak , Vladimir Rabinovich

This paper is concerned with the problem of scattering of time-harmonic acoustic waves from an impenetrable obstacle in a piecewise homogeneous medium. The well-posedness of the direct problem is established, employing the integral equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-09 xiaodong Liu , Bo Zhang

We consider a unique continuation problem for the wave equation given data in a volumetric subset of the space time domain. In the absence of data on the lateral boundary of the space-time cylinder we prove that the solution can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Erik Burman , Lauri Oksanen , Janosch Preuss , Ziyao Zhao

A review of the author's results is given. Inversion formulas and stability estimates for the solutions to 3D inverse scattering problems with fixed-energy data are obtained. Inversions of exact and noisy data are stidied. The inverse…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander G. Ramm

We study two new classes of inverse problems for a time-switched system in which a fractional wave equation (with Caputo derivative of order $\alpha \in (1,2)$) governs the dynamics on the interval $[0,a)$, and a fractional diffusion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-26 E. T. Karimov , N. A. Murolimova

We discuss direct and inverse spectral theory for the isospectral problem of the dispersionless Camassa--Holm equation, where the weight is allowed to be a finite signed measure. In particular, we prove that this weight is uniquely…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2013-01-11 Jonathan Eckhardt , Gerald Teschl

This paper is concerned with inverse acoustic source problems in an unbounded domain with dynamical boundary surface data of Dirichlet kind. The measurement data are taken at a surface far away from the source support. We prove uniqueness…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-22 Guanghui Hu , Yavar Kian , Yue Zhao

We study the spectral theory and inverse problem on asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds. The main subjects are as follows: (1)Location of the essential spectrum. (2)Absence of eigenvalues embedded in the continuous spectrum. (3)Limiting…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2012-08-23 Hiroshi Isozaki , Yaroslav Kurylev

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

We are interested in a time harmonic acoustic problem in a waveguide with locally perturbed sound hard walls. We consider a setting where an observer generates incident plane waves at $-\infty$ and probes the resulting scattered field at…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-19 Anne-Sophie Bonnet-Ben Dhia , Lucas Chesnel , Sergei A. Nazarov

Detection of scattered light can determine the susceptibility of dielectrics. Such imaging normally holds Rayleigh's limit: details finer than the wavelength of the incident light cannot be determined from the far-field zone. We show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-12 Vanik E. Mkrtchian , Hakob S. Avetisyan , Armen E. Allahverdyan

We consider the wave scattering and inverse scattering in an inhomogeneous medium embedded a homogeneous droplet with a small size, which is modeled by a constant mass density and a small bulk modulus. Based on the Lippmann-Schwinger…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Zhe Wang , Ahcene Ghandriche , Jijun Liu

We study waves governed by the planar Helmholtz equation, propagating in an infinite lattice of subwavelength Dirichlet scatterers, the periodicity being comparable to the wavelength. Applying the method of matched asymptotic expansions,…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Ory Schnitzer , Richard V. Craster

In this paper we present a hybrid approach to numerically solve two-dimensional electromagnetic inverse scattering problems, whereby the unknown scatterer is hosted by a possibly inhomogeneous background. The approach is `hybrid' in that it…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-10-22 G. Giorgi , M. Brignone , R. Aramini , M. Piana

This paper is concerned with the inverse spectral problem for the third-order differential equation with distribution coefficient. The inverse problem consists in the recovery of the differential expression coefficients from the spectral…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-24 Natalia P. Bondarenko