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With a densely defined symmetric semi-bounded operator of nonzero defect indexes $L_0$ in a separable Hilbert space ${\cal H}$ we associate a topological space $\Omega_{L_0}$ ({\it wave spectrum}) constructed from the reachable sets of a…
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Let $\Delta_{\Lambda}\le \lambda_{\Lambda}$ be a semi-bounded self-adjoint realization of the Laplace operator with boundary conditions (Dirichlet, Neumann, semi-transparent) assigned on the Lipschitz boundary of a bounded obstacle…
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Let $L_0$ be a closed densely defined symmetric semi-bounded operator with nonzero defect indexes in a separable Hilbert space ${\cal H}$. With $L_0$ we associate a metric space $\Omega_{L_0}$ that is named a {\it wave spectrum} and…
We introduce an arbitrary order, computationally efficient method to smooth corners on curves in the plane, as well as edges and vertices on surfaces in $\mathbb R^3$. The method is local, only modifying the original surface in a…
We present a novel numerical method to the time-harmonic inverse medium scattering problem of recovering the refractive index from near-field scattered data. The approach consists of two stages, one pruning step of detecting the scatterer…
We analyze the inverse spectral problem on the half line associated with elastic surface waves. Here, we focus on Love waves. Under certain generic conditions, we establish uniqueness and present a reconstruction scheme for the S- wavespeed…
This paper is concerned with the inverse time-harmonic elastic scattering problem of recovering unbounded rough surfaces in two dimensions. We assume that elastic plane waves with different directions are incident onto a rigid rough surface…
A novel method to solve inverse problems for the wave equation is introduced. The method is a combination of the boundary control method and an iterative time reversal scheme, leading to adaptive imaging of coefficient functions of the wave…
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We consider wave propagation problems over 2-dimensional domains with piecewise-linear boundaries, possibly including scatterers. We assume that the wave speed is constant, and that the initial conditions and forcing terms are radially…
The topic of this paper is a semi-linear, energy sub-critical, defocusing wave equation $\partial_t^2 u - \Delta u = - |u|^{p -1} u$ in the 3-dimensional space ($3\leq p<5$) whose initial data are radial and come with a finite energy. We…