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We study time-harmonic scattering in $\mathbb{R}^n$ ($n=2,3$) by a planar screen (a "crack" in the context of linear elasticity), assumed to be a non-empty bounded relatively open subset $\Gamma$ of the hyperplane $\mathbb{R}^{n-1}\times…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-09 J. Bannister , A. Gibbs , D. P. Hewett

We consider the scattering of particles by an obstacle which tunnels coherently between two positions. We show that the obstacle mimics two classical scatterers at fixed positions when the kinetic energy epsilon of the incident particles is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Schomerus , Y. Noat , J. Dalibard , C. W. J. Beenakker

This paper presents a robust numerical solution to the electromagnetic scattering problem involving multiple multi-layered cavities in both transverse magnetic and electric polarizations. A transparent boundary condition is introduced at…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-14 Peijun Li , Xiaokai Yuan

Interaction of waves with point and line defects are usually described by $\delta$-function potentials supported on points or lines. In two dimensions, the scattering problem for a finite collection of point defects or parallel line defects…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-14 Hai V. Bui , Farhang Loran , Ali Mostafazadeh

The control of wave scattering in complex non-Hermitian settings is an exciting subject -- often challenging the creativity of researchers and stimulating the imagination of the public. Successful outcomes include invisibility cloaks,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-28 Jared Erb , Nadav Shaibe , Robert Calvo , Daniel Lathrop , Thomas Antonsen , Tsampikos Kottos , Steven M. Anlage

We consider a second order difference equation with operator-valued coefficients. More precisely, we study either compact or trace class perturbations of the discrete Laplacian in the Hilbert space of bi-infinite square-summable sequence…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-22 David Sher , Luis Silva , Boris Vertman , Monika Winklmeier

The fundamental gap of a domain is the difference between the first two eigenvalues of the Laplace operator. In a series of recent and celebrated works, it was shown that for convex domains in $\mathbb R^n$ and $\mathbb S^n$ with Dirichlet…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-12 Gabriel Khan , Malik Tuerkoen , Guofang Wei

We prove a fractal uncertainty principle with exponent $\frac{d}{2} - \delta + \varepsilon$, $\varepsilon > 0$, for Ahlfors--David regular subsets of $\mathbb R^d$ with dimension $\delta$ which satisfy a suitable "nonorthogonality…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-06-18 Aidan Backus , James Leng , Zhongkai Tao

This paper is part of the radial asymptotic stability analysis of the ground state soliton for either the cubic nonlinear Schrodinger or Klein-Gordon equations in three dimensions. We demonstrate by a rigorous method that the linearized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Ovidiu Costin , Min Huang , Wilhelm Schlag

In this paper, we consider the obstacle problem for the fractional Laplace operator $(-\Delta)^s$ in the Euclidian space $\mathbb{R}^n$ in the case where $1<s<2$. As first observed in \cite{Y}, the problem can be extended to the upper…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Donatella Danielli , Alaa Haj Ali , Arshak Petrosyan

The first non-zero Laplace eigenvalue of a hyperbolic surface, or its spectral gap, measures how well-connected the surface is: surfaces with a large spectral gap are hard to cut in pieces, have a small diameter and fast mixing times. For…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Laura Monk

We consider scattering by an obstacle in $\Real^d$, $d\geq 3 $ odd. We show that for the Neumann Laplacian if an obstacle has the same resonances as the ball of radius $\rho$ does, then the obstacle is a ball of radius $\rho$. We give…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-01-07 T. J. Christiansen

We consider the focusing cubic NLS in the exterior $\Omega$ of a smooth, compact, strictly convex obstacle in three dimensions. We prove that the threshold for global existence and scattering is the same as for the problem posed on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-22 Rowan Killip , Monica Visan , Xiaoyi Zhang

When modeling propagation and scattering phenomena using integral equations discretized by the boundary element method, it is common practice to approximate the boundary of the scatterer with a mesh comprising elements of size approximately…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-06-13 V. Giunzioni , A. Merlini , F. P. Andriulli

The aim of this paper is to extend the method of improving cloaking structures in the conductivity to scattering problems. We construct very effective near-cloaking structures for the scattering problem at a fixed frequency. These new…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-30 Habib Ammari , Hyeonbae Kang , Hyundae Lee , Mikyoung Lim

To study the location of poles for the acoustic scattering matrix for two strictly convex obstacles with smooth boundaries, one uses an approximation of the quantized billiard operator $M$ along the trapped ray between the two obstacles.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Alexei Iantchenko

We prove that the Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator (DtN) has no spectrum in the lower half of the complex plane. We find several application of this fact in scattering by obstacles with impedance boundary conditions. In particular, we find an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Evgeny Lakshtanov

The goal of this paper is to combine ideas from the theory of mixed spectral problems for differential operators with new results in the area of the Uncertainty Principle in Harmonic Analysis (UP). Using recent solutions of Gap and Type…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2017-12-29 Nikolai Makarov , Alexei Poltoratski

We examine the band-gap structure of the spectrum of the Neumann problem for the Laplace operator in a strip with periodic dense transversal perforation by identical holes of a small diameter $\varepsilon>0$. The periodicity cell itself…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Delfina Gómez , Sergei A. Nazarov , Rafael Orive-Illera , Maria-Eugenia Pérez-Martínez

This paper is concerned with an inverse obstacle problem which employs the dynamical scattering data of acoustic wave over a finite time interval. The unknown obstacle is assumed to be sound-soft one. The governing equation of the wave is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-20 Masaru Ikehata