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We construct a scattering matrix with operator valued entries describing solutions to the 1+1 wave equation where permittivities has memory and depends on time and space. It is the analogue of the scattering matrix for spatially localised…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Jeffrey Galkowski , Zhen Huang , Maciej Zworski

In this paper, we describe the general framework to describe the diffusion operators associated to a positive matrix. We define the equations associated to diffusion operators and present some general properties of their state vectors. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-06-19 Dohy Hong , Gérard Burnside

A new method of solution is proposed for solution of the wave equation in one space dimension with continuously-varying coefficients. By considering all paths along which information arrives at a given point, the solution is expressed as an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-11 Jithin D. George , David I. Ketcheson , Randall J. LeVeque

A new type of wave-mean flow interaction is identified and studied in which a small-amplitude, linear, dispersive modulated wave propagates through an evolving, nonlinear, large-scale fluid state such as an expansion (rarefaction) wave or a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-08-06 T. Congy , G. A. El , M. A. Hoefer

The implications of the Lorentz reciprocity theorem for a scatterer connected to waveguides with arbitrary modes, including degenerate, evanescent, and complex modes, are discussed. In general it turns out that a matrix $CS$ is symmetric,…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-12 Guro K. Svendsen , Magnus W. Haakestad , Johannes Skaar

Coupled wave equations are popular tool for investigating longitudinal dynamical effects in semiconductor lasers, for example, sensitivity to delayed optical feedback. We study a model that consists of a hyperbolic linear system of partial…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-08-12 Jan Sieber

The reciprocity principle is that, when an emitted wave gets scattered on an object, the scattering transition amplitude does not change if we interchange the source and the detector - in other words, if incoming waves are interchanged with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-19 László Deák , Tamás Fülöp

The discrete wave equation in a multidimensional uniform space with local defects and sources is considered. The characterization of all possible defect configurations corresponding to given amplitudes of waves at the receivers (detectors)…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-04-28 Anton A. Kutsenko

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

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Xiaodong Liu , Bo Zhang , Jiaqing Yang

A one-way wave equation is an evolution equation in one of the space directions that describes (approximately) a wave field. The exact wave field is approximated in a high frequency, microlocal sense. Here we derive the pseudodifferential…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Christiaan C. Stolk

This work is concerned with the classical wave equation with a high-contrast coefficient in the spatial derivative operator. We first treat the periodic case, where we derive a new limit in the one-dimensional case. The behavior is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-28 Élise Fressart , Barbara Verfürth

In this paper, we empirically reveal an invariance over images-images share a set of one-way wave equations with latent speeds. Each image is uniquely associated with a solution to these wave equations, allowing for its reconstruction with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Yinpeng Chen , Dongdong Chen , Xiyang Dai , Mengchen Liu , Yinan Feng , Youzuo Lin , Lu Yuan , Zicheng Liu

The present manuscript consists of inverse problems for a coupled system of wave equations with potential in $\mathbb{R}^3$. By establishing the fundamental solution to the aforementioned operator, we study the uniqueness aspects of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Rahul Bhardwaj , Manmohan Vashisth

A representation of solutions of the wave equation with two spatial coordinates in terms of localized elementary ones is presented. Elementary solutions are constructed from four solutions with the help of transformations of the affine…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Maria V. Perel , Evgeny A. Gorodnitskiy

We consider an inverse problem for the linear one-dimensional wave equation with variable coefficients consisting in determining an unknown source term from a boundary observation. A method to obtain approximations of this inverse problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Carlos Castro , Sorin Micu

A unidirectional reduction of the deep-water surface gravity wave problem is derived in physical space using real variables. By employing a near-identity canonical transformation, cubic interactions are eliminated from the Hamiltonian, with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-26 Päivo Simson

In this paper we derive a higher-order KdV equation (HKdV) as a model to describe the unidirectional propagation of waves on an internal interface separating two fluid layers of varying densities. Our model incorporates underlying currents…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2025-06-13 David Henry , Rossen I. Ivanov , Zisis N. Sakellaris

In this article, I present an elementary introduction to the theory of gravitational waves. This article is meant for students who have had an exposure to general relativity, but, results from general relativity used in the main discussion…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Indrajit Chakrabarty

We derive from first principles a one-way radiative transfer equation for the wave intensity resolved over directions (Wigner transform of the wave field) in random media. It is an initial value problem with excitation from a source which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-17 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier

The inhomogeneous wave equation, triggered by point sources, forms the basis for the most modern computational techniques of seismic inversion. In this work, we propose to transfer the inhomogeneous wave equation into a homogeneous…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-09-30 Marcos Vinícius Cândido Henriques