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The stability of naked singularities in self-similar collapse is probed using scalar waves. It is shown that the multipoles of a minimally coupled massless scalar field propagating on a spherically symmetric self-similar background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Brien C. Nolan

The general space-time evolution of the scattering of an incident acoustic plane wave pulse by an arbitrary configuration of targets is treated by employing a recently developed non-singular boundary integral method to solve the Helmholtz…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Evert Klaseboer , Shahrokh Sepehrirahnama , Derek Y. C. Chan

We prove the existence of solitary waves in a lattice where all particles interact with each other by pair-wise repulsive forces that decay with distance. The variational existence proof is based on constrained optimization and provides a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Michael Herrmann , Karsten Matthies , Jan-Patrick Meyer

We consider multi-frequency inverse source problem for the discrete Helmholtz operator on the square lattice $\mathbb{Z}^d$, $d \ge 1$. We consider this problem for the cases with and without phase information. We prove uniqueness results…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-09 Roman Novikov , Basant Lal Sharma

We investigate elliptic fractional equations in the whole space, involving zero order perturbations of the fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^s$, $0<s<1$. Our main objective is to determine appropriate radiation conditions at infinity that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Dana Zilberberg , Fioralba Cakoni , Michael S. Vogelius

We study the propagation properties of the solutions of the finite-difference space semi-discrete wave equation on an uniform grid of the whole Euclidean space. We provide a construction of high frequency wave packets that propagate along…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-08-03 Aurora-Mihaela Marica , Enrique Zuazua

We consider the Bayesian approach to the inverse problem of recovering the shape of an object from measurements of its scattered acoustic field. Working in the time-harmonic setting, we focus on a Helmholtz transmission problem and then…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-31 Safiere Kuijpers , Laura Scarabosio

A theory of electromagnetic (EM) wave scattering by many small particles of an arbitrary shape is developed. The particles are perfectly conducting or impedance. For a small impedance particle of an arbitrary shape an explicit analytical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-01-12 A. G. Ramm

We establish an optimal \emph{Widder theory} for a weighted porous medium equation with rough and inhomogeneous density that may be singular at a point and tends to zero at spatial infinity. Specifically, for this equation, we identify a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Gabriele Grillo , Matteo Muratori , Troy Petitt , Nikita Simonov

This paper provides a theoretical foundation for some common formulations of inverse problems in wave propagation, based on hyperbolic systems of linear integro-differential equations with bounded and measurable coefficients. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Kirk D. Blazek , Christiaan C. Stolk , William W. Symes

We study the time-harmonic Maxwell equations on bounded Lipschitz domains with an impedance boundary condition. The impedance coefficient can be matrix valued such that, in particular, a polarization dependent impedance is modeled. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Ben Schweizer , David Wiedemann

We give a counter part of Sommerfeld outging radiation condition for waves propagating in a 2d periodic medium under generical assumptions and provide a uniqueness theorem for outgoing solutions.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-01 Vincent Lescarret

This paper treats the time-harmonic electro-magnetic scattering or radiation problem governed by Maxwell's equations in an exterior weak Lipschitz domain divided into two disjoint weak Lipschitz parts We will present a solution theory using…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-30 Frank Osterbrink , Dirk Pauly

This paper is concerned with inverse crack scattering problems for time-harmonic acoustic waves. We prove that a piecewise linear crack with the sound-soft boundary condition in two dimensions can be uniquely determined by the far-field…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-09 Xiaoxu Xu , Guanqiu Ma , Guanghui Hu

We study a Helmholtz-type spectral problem in a two-dimensional medium consisting of a fully periodic background structure and a perturbation in form of a line defect. The defect is aligned along one of the coordinate axes, periodic in that…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Vu Hoang , Maria Radosz

Local diffusion of strictly hyperbolic higher-order PDE's with constant coefficients at all simple singularities of corresponding wavefronts can be explained and recognized by only two local geometrical features of these wavefronts. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-26 Victor A. Vassiliev

We study time-harmonic scattering by a periodic array of penetrable, high-contrast obstacles with small period, confined to a bounded Lipschitz domain. The strong contrast between the obstacles and the background induces subwavelength…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Yuxin Du , Xin Fu , Wenjia Jing

The propagation of small-amplitude inhomogeneous plane waves in an isotropic homogeneous incompressible Mooney--Rivlin material is considered when the material is maintained in a state of finite static homogeneous deformation. Disturbances…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-02 Michel Destrade

We study the effect of discrete symmetry breaking in inhomogeneous scattering media within the framework of generic wave propagation. Our focus is on one-dimensional scattering potentials exhibiting local symmetries. We find a class of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-22 P. A. Kalozoumis , C. Morfonios , F. K. Diakonos , P. Schmelcher

In this paper we investigate a construction of scattering for wave-type equations with singular potentials on the whole space $\mathbb{R}^n$ in a framework of weak-$L^p$ spaces. First, we use an Yamazaki-type estimate for wave groups on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Pham Truong Xuan