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We consider a model of a leaky quantum wire with the Hamiltonian $-\Delta -\alpha \delta(x-\Gamma)$ in $L^2(\R^2)$, where $\Gamma$ is a compact deformation of a straight line. The existence of wave operators is proven and the S-matrix is…
This paper is concerned with uniqueness results in inverse acoustic and electromagnetic scattering problems with phaseless total-field data at a fixed frequency. Motivated by our previous work ({\em SIAM J. Appl. Math. \bf78} (2018),…
In three dimensional scattering, the energy continuum wavefunction is obtained by utilizing two independent solutions of the reference wave equation. One of them is typically singular (usually, near the origin of configuration space). Both…
This paper is concerned with analysis of electromagnetic wave scattering by an obstacle which is embedded in a two-layered lossy medium separated by an unbounded rough surface. Given a dipole point source, the direct problem is to determine…
We provide an exact solution of the scattering problem for the potentials of the form $v(x,y)=\chi_a(x)[v_0(x)+ v_1(x)e^{i\alpha y}]$, where $\chi_a(x):=1$ for $x\in[0,a]$, $\chi_a(x):=0$ for $x\notin[0,a]$, $v_j(x)$ are real or…
Consider time-harmonic acoustic scattering from a bounded penetrable obstacle $D\subset \mathbb R^N$ embedded in a homogeneous background medium. The index of refraction characterizing the material inside $D$ is supposed to be H\"older…
We apply inverse scattering theory to calculate the functional derivative of the potential $V(x)$ and wave function $\psi(x,k)$ of a one-dimensional Schr\"odinger operator with respect to the reflection amplitude $r(k)$.
An interesting inverse optimization spectral problem, with important applications in structural health monitoring and damage detection, material design, seismic wave analysis, sonar detection, and related fields, involves reconstructing a…
In this paper, we consider the scattering theory for acoustic-type equations on non-compact manifolds with a single flat end. Our main purpose is to show an existence result of non-scattering energies. Precisely, we show a Weyl-type lower…
In 'supersingular' scattering the potential $g^2U_A(r)$ involves a variable nonlinear parameter $A$ upon the increase of which the potential also increases beyond all limits everywhere off the origin and develops a uniquely high level of…
Let $\Omega =\omega\times\mathbb R$ where $\omega\subset \mathbb R^2$ be a bounded domain, and $V : \Omega \to\mathbb R$ a bounded potential which is $2\pi$-periodic in the variable $x_{3}\in \mathbb R$. We study the inverse problem…
Let $u_t=\nabla^2 u-q(x)u:=Lu$ in $D\times [0,\infty)$, where $D\subset R^3$ is a bounded domain with a smooth connected boundary $S$, and $q(x)\in L^2(S)$ is a real-valued function with compact support in $D$. Assume that $u(x,0)=0$, $u=0$…
This paper is concerned with uniqueness in inverse electromagnetic scattering with phaseless far-field pattern at a fixed frequency. In our previous work [{\em SIAM J. Appl. Math.} {\bf 78} (2018), 3024-3039], by adding a known reference…
Consider the Newton equation in the relativistic case (that is the Newton-Einstein equation) $$\eqalign{\dot p = F(x),& F(x)=-\nabla V(x),\cr p={\dot x \over \sqrt{1-{|\dot x|^2 \over c^2}}},& \dot p={dp\over dt}, \dot x={dx\over dt}, x\in…
Scattering off a potential is a fundamental problem in quantum physics. It has been studied extensively with amplitudes derived for various potentials. In this article, we explore a setting with no potentials, where scattering occurs off a…
This work is concerned with an inverse electromagnetic scattering problem in two dimensions. We prove that in the TE polarization case, the knowledge of the electric far-field pattern incited by a single incoming wave is sufficient to…
In this paper, we study the focusing and defocusing energy--subcritical, nonlinear wave equation in $\mathbb{R}^{1+d}$ with radial initial data for $d = 4,5$. We prove that if a solution remains bounded in the critical space on its interval…
We study a question arising in inverse scattering theory: given a penetrable obstacle, does there exist an incident wave that does not scatter? We show that every penetrable obstacle with real-analytic boundary admits such an incident wave.…
The long-standing problem of constructing a potential from mixed scattering data is discussed. We first consider the fixed-$\ell$ inverse scattering problem. We show that the zeros of the regular solution of the Schr\"odinger equation,…
We study the energy critical wave equation in 3 dimensions around a single soliton. We obtain energy boundedness (modulo unstable modes) for the linearised problem. We use this to construct scattering solutions in a neighbourhood of…