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Distribution of particles which produces a "smart" material

Mathematical Physics 2009-11-11 v6 math.MP

Abstract

If Aq(β,α,k)A_q(\beta, \alpha, k) is the scattering amplitude, corresponding to a potential qL2(D)q\in L^2(D), where DR3D\subset\R^3 is a bounded domain, and eikαxe^{ik\alpha \cdot x} is the incident plane wave, then we call the radiation pattern the function A(β):=Aq(β,α,k)A(\beta):=A_q(\beta, \alpha, k), where the unit vector α\alpha, the incident direction, is fixed, and k>0k>0, the wavenumber, is fixed. It is shown that any function f(β)L2(S2)f(\beta)\in L^2(S^2), where S2S^2 is the unit sphere in R3\R^3, can be approximated with any desired accuracy by a radiation pattern: f(β)A(β)L2(S2)<ϵ||f(\beta)-A(\beta)||_{L^2(S^2)}<\epsilon, where ϵ>0\epsilon>0 is an arbitrary small fixed number. The potential qq, corresponding to A(β)A(\beta), depends on ff and ϵ\epsilon, and can be calculated analytically. There is a one-to-one correspondence between the above potential and the density of the number of small acoustically soft particles DmDD_m\subset D, 1mM1\leq m\leq M, distributed in an a priori given bounded domain DR3D\subset\R^3. The geometrical shape of a small particle DmD_m is arbitrary, the boundary SmS_m of DmD_m is Lipschitz uniformly with respect to mm. The wave number kk and the direction α\alpha of the incident upon DD plane wave are fixed.It is shown that a suitable distribution of the above particles in DD can produce the scattering amplitude A(α,α)A(\alpha',\alpha), α,αS2\alpha',\alpha\in S^2, at a fixed k>0k>0, arbitrarily close in the norm of L2(S2×S2)L^2(S^2\times S^2) to an arbitrary given scattering amplitude f(α,α)f(\alpha',\alpha), corresponding to a real-valued potential qL2(D)q\in L^2(D).

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@article{arxiv.math-ph/0606023,
  title  = {Distribution of particles which produces a "smart" material},
  author = {A. G. Ramm},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/0606023},
  year   = {2009}
}

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