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In this announcement we present a general and new approach to analyzing the asymptotics of oscillatory Riemann-Hilbert problems. Such problems arise, in particular, in evaluating the long-time behavior of nonlinear wave equations solvable…

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In 2013 a new nonlocal symmetry reduction of the well-known AKNS scattering problem was found; it was shown to give rise to a new nonlocal $PT$ symmetric and integrable Hamiltonian nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (NLS) equation. Subsequently, the…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2016-12-09 Mark J. Ablowitz , Xu-Dan Luo , Ziad H. Musslimani

We consider the inverse scattering problem for sparse scatterers. An image reconstruction algorithm is proposed that is based on a nonlinear generalization of iterative hard thresholding. The convergence and error of the method was analyzed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-27 Anna C. Gilbert , Howard W. Levinson , John C. Schotland

We consider the direct and inverse scattering problem for a penetrable, isotropic obstacle with a second-order Robin boundary condition, which asymptotically models the delamination of the boundary of the scatterer. We develop a direct…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Govanni Granados , Isaac Harris , Andreas Kleefeld

In this paper, we develop an inverse scattering transform for the integrable focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation on the half-line subject to a class of boundary conditions. The method is based on the notions of integrable…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2021-06-22 Cheng Zhang

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

Reflection phase imaging provides label-free, high-resolution characterization of biological samples, typically using interferometric-based techniques. Here, we investigate reflection phase microscopy from intensity-only measurements under…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-12-18 Alex Matlock , Anne Sentenac , Patrick C. Chaumet , Ji Yi , Lei Tian

For the first time, we develop in this paper the globally convergent convexification numerical method for a Coefficient Inverse Problem for the 3D Helmholtz equation for the case when the backscattering data are generated by a point source…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-14 Vo Anh Khoa , Michael Victor Klibanov , Loc Hoang Nguyen

In this paper we consider the inverse scattering problem at a fixed energy for the Schr\"odinger equation with a long-range potential in $\ere^d, d\geq 3$. We prove that the long-range part can be uniquely reconstructed from the leading…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-05-22 Ricardo Weder , Dimitri Yafaev

We formulate the inverse spectral theory of infinite gap Hill's operators with bounded periodic potential as a Riemann--Hilbert problem on a typically infinite collection of spectral bands and gaps. We establish a uniqueness theorem for…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-04 Kenneth T-R. McLaughlin , Patrik V. Nabelek

We discuss a time-harmonic inverse scattering problem for a nonlinear Helmholtz equation with compactly supported inhomogeneous scattering objects that are described by a nonlinear refractive index in unbounded free space. Assuming the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-14 Roland Griesmaier , Marvin Knöller , Rainer Mandel

This paper presents an approach for the development of a number theoretic discrete Hilbert transform. The forward transformation has been applied by taking the odd reciprocals that occur in the DHT matrix with respect to a power of 2.…

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We study the initial-value problem for the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. Application of the inverse scattering transform method involves solving direct and inverse scattering problems for the Zakharov-Shabat system with complex…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Vladislav V. Kravchenko

We solve inverse scattering problem for Schr\"odinger operators with compactly supported potentials on the half line. We discretize S-matrix: we take the value of the S-matrix on some infinite sequence of positive real numbers. Using this…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-10-08 Evgeny L. Korotyaev

These lectures introduce the method of nonlinear steepest descent for Riemann-Hilbert problems. This method finds use in studying asymptotics associated to a variety of special functions such as the Painlev\'{e} equations and orthogonal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-03-21 Percy Deift

This is Part II of the paper series on data-compatible T-matrix completion (DCTMC), which is a method for solving nonlinear inverse problems. Part I of the series contains theory and here we present simulations for inverse scattering of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-11-02 Howard W. Levinson , Vadim A. Markel

We systematically report a rigorous theory of the inverse scattering transforms (ISTs) for the derivative nonlinear Schrodinger (DNLS) equation with both zero boundary condition (ZBC)/non-zero boundary conditions (NZBCs) at infinity and…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2020-12-08 Guoqiang Zhang , Zhenya Yan

We start with a Riemann-Hilbert problem (RHP) related to a BD.I-type symmetric spaces $SO(2r+1)/S(O(2r-2s +1)\otimes O(2s))$, $s\geq 1$. We consider two Riemann-Hilbert problems: the first formulated on the real axis $\mathbb{R}$ in the…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2017-09-20 Vladimir S. Gerdjikov

This work present an affine map approximation for solving the inverse scattering problem related to the nonlinear Schr\"odinger model of signal propagation in high-speed coherent optical communication. Numerical simulations indicate that…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-29 Ilia Kuk , Ildar R. Gabitov

We derive a fully discrete Inverse Scattering Transform as a method for solving the initial-value problem for the Q3$_\delta$ lattice (difference-difference) equation for real-valued solutions. The initial condition is given on an infinite…

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