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Exact solutions of two-particle relativistic equations of quantum field theory describing the scattering $s$-states and the bound $s$-states are found in the cases of delta-shell potential and superposition of delta-shell potentials. Some…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-12-09 Valery Kapshai , Yury Grishechkin

In this paper, we establish a conformal scattering theory for defocusing semilinear wave equations on Schwarzschild spacetime. We combine the energy and pointwise decay results for solutions obtained in \cite{Yang} with a Sobolev embedding…

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

The features of propagation of intense waves are of great interest for theory and experiment in electrodynamics and acoustics. The behavior of nonlinear waves in a bounded volume is of especial importance and, at the same time, is an…

Classical Physics · Physics 2013-06-05 E. Yu. Petrov , A. V. Kudrin

In this paper we survey some recent results concerning scattering and non-scattering in the context of the linear Helmholtz equation and inhomogeneities of nontrivial contrast. We examine isotropic as well as anisotropic media. Part of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Fioralba Cakoni , Michael S. Vogelius

The scattering of electromagnetic waves by an obstacle is analyzed through a set of partial differential equations combining the Maxwell's model with the mechanics of fluids. Solitary type EM waves, having compact support, may easily be…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 Daniele Funaro , Eugene Kashdan

Scattering states with LEED asymptotics are calculated for a general non-muffin tin potential, as e.g. for a pseudopotential with a suitable barrier and image potential part. The latter applies especially to the case of low lying conduction…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Lorenz , C. Solterbeck , W. Schattke , J. Burmeister , W. Hackbusch

When a plane electromagnetic wave impinges upon a diffraction grating or other periodic structures, reflected and transmitted waves propagate away from the structure in different radiation channels. A diffraction anomaly occurs when the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Zitao Mai , Ya Yan Lu

Electromagnetic wave scattering from planar dielectric films deposited on one-dimensional, randomly rough, perfectly conducting substrates is studied by numerical simulations for both p- and s-polarization. The reduced Rayleigh equation,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-25 I. Simonsen , A. A. Maradudin

Using a cylindrical soliton solution to the four-dimensional vacuum Einstein equation, we study non-linear effects of gravitational waves such as Faraday rotation and time shift phenomenon. In the previous work, we analyzed the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-24 Shinya Tomizawa , Takashi Mishima

We study the properties of the outgoing gravitational wave produced when a non-spinning black hole is excited by an ingoing gravitational wave. Simulations using a numerical code for solving Einstein's equations allow the study to be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Yosef Zlochower , Roberto Gomez , Sascha Husa , Luis Lehner , Jeffrey Winicour

We investigate the problem of metric fluctuations in the presence of the vacuum fluctuations of matter fields and critically assess the usual assertion that vacuum energy implies a Planckian cosmological constant. A new stochastic classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-06-19 Charles H. -T. Wang , Paolo M. Bonifacio , Robert Bingham , J. Tito Mendonca

Motion of test particles in the gravitational field associated with an electromagnetic plane wave is investigated. The interaction with the radiation field is modeled by a force term {\it \`a la} Poynting-Robertson entering the equations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Donato Bini , Andrea Geralico

In the middle of last century, Bondi and his coworkers proposed an out going boundary condition for the Einstein equations. Based on such boundary condition the authors theoretically solved the puzzle of the existence problem of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-17 Xiaokai He , Zhoujian Cao , Jiliang Jing

We combine theories of scattering for linearized water waves and flexural waves in thin plates to characterize and achieve control of water wave scattering using floating plates. This requires manipulating a sixth-order partial differential…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-04-06 Mohamed Farhat , Pai-Yen Chen , Hakan Bagci , Khaled Salama , Sebastien Guenneau

Many integral equation-based methods are available for problems of time-harmonic electromagnetic scattering from perfect electric conductors. Among the many challenges that arise in such calculations are the avoidance of spurious…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Felipe Vico , Leslie Greengard , Michael O'Neil , Manas Rachh

We demonstrate how plane fronted waves with colliding wave fronts are the asymptotic limit of spherical electromagnetic and gravitational waves. In the case of the electromagnetic waves we utilize Bateman's representation of radiative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-30 Peter A. Hogan , Dirk Puetzfeld

The extended boundary condition method can be formulated to study plane-wave scattering by an ellipsoid composed of an orthorhombic dielectric-magnetic material whose relative permittivity dyadic is a scalar multiple of its relative…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-22 H. M. Alkhoori , A. Lakhtakia , J. K. Breakall , C. F. Bohren

The collision of two plane gravitational waves in Einstein's theory of relativity can be described mathematically by a Goursat problem for the hyperbolic Ernst equation in a triangular domain. We use the integrable structure of the Ernst…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-28 Jonatan Lenells , Julian Mauersberger

This paper studies time-dependent electromagnetic scattering from metamaterials that are described by dispersive material laws. We consider the numerical treatment of a scattering problem in which a dispersive material law, for a causal and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-08 Jörg Nick , Selina Burkhard , Christian Lubich

Colliding or noncolliding plane fronted electromagnetic or gravitational waves are the asymptotic limit of Robinson--Trautman spherical electromagnetic or gravitational waves. Noncolliding plane fronted waves contain no information about…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-03 Peter A. Hogan , Dirk Puetzfeld