A Multidimensional Inverse-Scattering Method

A formal solution of the inverse scattering problem for the n-dimensional; time-dependent and time-independent Schrödinger equations is given. Equations are found for reconstructing the potential from scattering data purely by quadratures. The solution also helps elucidate the problem of characterizing admissible scattering data.     

Multidimensional Inverse Scattering for First-Order Systems

A method for solving the inverse problem for a class of multidimensional first-order systems is given. The analysis yields equations which the scattering data must satisfy; these equations are natural candidates for characterizing admissible scattering data. The results are used to solve the multidimensional N-wave resonant interaction equations.     

Inverse scattering transform for the two-component Gerdjikov–Ivanov equation with nonzero boundary conditions: Dark-dark solitons

The two-component Gerdjikov–Ivanov equation with nonzero boundary conditions is studied by the inverse scattering transform. A fundamental set of analytic eigenfunctions is obtained with the aid of the associated adjoint problem. Three symmetry conditions are discussed to curb the scattering data. The behavior of the Jost functions and the scattering matrix at the branch points is discussed. The inverse scattering problem is formulated by a matrix Riemann–Hilbert problem. The trace formula in terms of the scattering data and the so-called asymptotic phase difference for the potential are obtained. The solitons classification is described in detail. When the discrete eigenvalues lie on the circle, the dark-dark soliton is obtained for the first time in this work. And the discrete eigenvalues off the circle generate the dark-bright, bright-bright, breather-breather, M(-type)-W(-type) solitons, and their interactions.     

Inverse problem of scattering theory for a class one-dimensional Schrödinger equation

Abstract

In this work, direct and inverse scattering problem on the real axis for the Schrödinger equation with piecewise-constant coefficient are studied. Using the new integral representations for solutions, the scattering data is defined, the main integral equations of the inverse scattering problem are obtained, the spectral characteristics of the scattering data are investigated and uniqueness theorem for the solution of inverse problem is proved.     

On an inverse scattering problem for a class of Dirac operators with spectral parameter in the boundary condition

In this work, we consider the inverse scattering problem for a class of one dimensional Dirac operators on the semi-infinite interval with the boundary condition depending polynomially on a spectral parameter. The scattering data of the given problem is defined and its properties are examined. The main equation is derived, its solvability is proved and it is shown that the potential is uniquely recovered in terms of the scattering data. A generalization of the Marchenko method is given for a class of Dirac operator.     

Numerical solution of 3d inverse scattering problems with noisy discrete fixed-energy data

A rigorous method is described for a stable soluton of 3D inverse scattering problems with noisy discrete fixed-energy scattering data. The error estimates are given.     

Inverse scattering problem for Sturm–Liouville operator with nonlinear dependence on the spectral parameter in the boundary condition

The inverse problem of the scattering theory for Sturm–Liouville operator on the half line with boundary condition depending quadratic on the spectral parameter is considered. Scattering data are defined, some properties of the scattering data are examined, the main equation is obtained, solvability of the integral equation is proved and uniqueness of algorithm to the potential with given scattering data is studied. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Radon Transform for Solving an Inverse Scattering Problem in a Planar Layered Acoustic Medium

A two-dimensional inverse scattering problem in a layered acoustic medium occupying a half-plane is considered. Data is the scattered wavefield from a surface point source measured on the boundary of the half-plane. On the basis of the Radon transform, an algorithm is constructed that recovers the velocity and the acoustic impedance of the medium from the scattering data. An analytical solution is presented for an inverse scattering problem, and several inverse scattering problems are solved numerically.     

Solution of the Cauchy problem for the Boiti-Leon-Pempinelli equation

The Cauchy problem for the (2+1)-dimensional nonlinear Boiti-Leon-Pempinelli (BLP) equation is studied within the framework of the inverse problem method. Evolution equations generated by the system of BLP equations under study are derived for the resolvent, Jost solutions, and scattering data for the two-dimensional Klein-Gordon differential operator with variable coefficients. Additional conditions on the scattering data that ensure the stability of the solutions to the Cauchy problem are revealed. A recurrence procedure is suggested for constructing the polynomial integrals of motion and the generating function for these integrals in terms of the spectral data.Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 109, No. 2, pp. 163–174, November, 1996.     

一个声波散射区域的重建方法与唯一性定理

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Scattering problem for the differential operator ∂ x ∂ y +1+a(x,y)∂ y +a(x,y)

The scattering problem for the two-dimensional Klein — Gordon differential operator with variable coefficients is studied in the framework of the resolvent approach. Jost solutions, retarded and advanced solutions, and spectral data are introduced, and their properties are described. The inverse scattering problem is formulated.V. A. Steklov Mathematics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences (e-mail:POGREB@QFT.MIAN.SU). Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 102, No. 2, pp. 163–182, February, 1995.     

CMV matrices with asymptotically constant coefficients. Szegö-Blaschke class, scattering theory

We develop a modern extended scattering theory for CMV matrices with asymptotically constant Verblunsky coefficients. We show that the traditional (Faddeev-Marchenko) condition is too restrictive to define the class of CMV matrices for which there exists a unique scattering representation. The main results are: (1) the class of twosided CMV matrices acting in l², whose spectral density satisfies the Szegö condition and whose point spectrum the Blaschke condition, corresponds precisely to the class where the scattering problem can be posed and solved. That is, to a given CMV matrix of this class, one can associate the scattering data and the FM space. The CMV matrix corresponds to the multiplication operator in this space, and the orthonormal basis in it (corresponding to the standard basis in l²) behaves asymptotically as the basis associated with the free system. (2) From the point of view of the scattering problem, the most natural class of CMV matrices is that one in which (a) the scattering data determine the matrix uniquely and (b) the associated Gelfand-Levitan-Marchenko transformation operators are bounded. Necessary and sufficient conditions for this class can be given in terms of an A₂ kind condition for the density of the absolutely continuous spectrum and a Carleson kind condition for the discrete spectrum. Similar conditions close to the optimal ones are given directly in terms of the scattering data.     

Acoustic Scattering and the Extended Korteweg– de Vries Hierarchy

The acoustic scattering operator on the real line is mapped to a Schrödinger operator under the Liouville transformation. The potentials in the image are characterized precisely in terms of their scattering data, and the inverse transfor- mation is obtained as a simple, linear quadrature. An existence theorem for the associated Harry Dym flows is proved, using the scattering method. The scattering problem associated with the Camassa–Holm flows on the real line is solved explicitly for a special case, which is used to reduce a general class of such problems to scattering problems on finite intervals.     

The Cauchy problem of the Ward equation

We generalize the results of [J. Villarroel, The inverse problem for Ward's system, Stud. Appl. Math. 83 (1990) 211-222; A.S. Fokas, T.A. Ioannidou, The inverse spectral theory for the Ward equation and for the 2+1 chiral model, Comm. Appl. Anal. 5 (2001) 235-246; B. Dai, C.L. Terng, K. Uhlenbeck, On the space-time Monopole equation, arXiv:math.DG/0602607] to study the inverse scattering problem of the Ward equation with non-small data and solve the Cauchy problem of the Ward equation with a non-small purely continuous scattering data.     

The Inverse Scattering Transform for the Benjamin–Ono Equation

We extend the inverse scattering transform (IST) for the Benjamin–Ono (BO) equation, given by A. S. Fokas and M. J. Ablowitz ( Stud. Appl. Math. 68:1, 1983), in two important ways. First, we restrict the IST to purely real potentials, in which case the scattering data and the inverse scattering equations simplify. Second, we extend the analysis of the asymptotics of the Jost functions and the scattering data to include the nongeneric classes of potentials, which include, but may not be limited to, all N -soliton solutions. In the process, we also study the adjoint equation of the eigenvalue problem for the BO equation, from which, for real potentials, we find a very simple relation between the two reflection coefficients (the functions β(λ) and f (λ)) introduced by Fokas and Ablowitz. Furthermore, we show that the reflection coefficient also defines a phase shift, which can be interpreted as the phase shift between the left Jost function and the right Jost function. This phase shift leads to an analogy of Levinson's theorem, as well as a condition on the number of possible bound states that can be contained in the initial data. For both generic and nongeneric potentials, we detail the asymptotics of the Jost functions and the scattering data. In particular, we are able to give improved asymptotics for nongeneric potentials in the limit of a vanishing spectral parameter. We also study the structure of the scattering data and the Jost functions for pure soliton solutions, which are examples of nongeneric potentials. We obtain remarkably simple solutions for these Jost functions, and they demonstrate the different asymptotics that nongeneric potentials possess. Last, we show how to obtain the infinity of conserved quantities from one of the Jost functions of the BO equation and how to obtain these conserved quantities in terms of the various moments of the scattering data.     

The point source method for inverse scattering in the time domain

Many recent inverse scattering techniques have been designed for single frequency scattered fields in the frequency domain. In practice, however, the data is collected in the time domain. Frequency domain inverse scattering algorithms obviously apply to time‐harmonic scattering, or nearly time‐harmonic scattering, through application of the Fourier transform. Fourier transform techniques can also be applied to non‐time‐harmonic scattering from pulses. Our goal here is twofold: first, to establish conditions on the time‐dependent waves that provide a correspondence between time domain and frequency domain inverse scattering via Fourier transforms without recourse to the conventional limiting amplitude principle; secondly, we apply the analysis in the first part of this work toward the extension of a particular scattering technique, namely the point source method, to scattering from the requisite pulses. Numerical examples illustrate the method and suggest that reconstructions from admissible pulses deliver superior reconstructions compared to straight averaging of multi‐frequency data. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

On initial data of the monopole equation

The space-time monopole equation is the reduction of anti-self-dual Yang-Mills equations in R2,2 to R2,1. This equation is a non-linear wave equation, and can be encoded in a Lax pair. An equivalent Lax pair is used by Dai and Terng to construct monopoles with continuous scattering data, and then the equation can be linearized by the scattering data, allowing one to use the inverse scattering method to solve the Cauchy problem with rapidly decaying small initial data. In this paper, we use the terminology of holomorphic bundle and transversality of certain maps, parametrized by initial data, to give more initial data, with which we can use scattering method to solve the Cauchy problem of the monopole equation up to gauge transformation.     

Recovering asymptotics of metrics from fixed energy scattering data

The problem of recovering the asymptotics of a short range perturbation of the Euclidean metric on Rⁿ from fixed energy scattering data is studied. It is shown that if two such metrics, g₁,g₂, have scattering data at some fixed energy which are equal up to smoothing, then there exists a diffeomorphism N 'fixing infinity' such that N^*g₁-g₂ is rapidly decreasing. Given the scattering matrix at two energies, it is shown that the asymptotics of a metric and a short range potential can be determined simultaneously. These results also hold for a wide class of scattering manifolds.     

INVERSE MEDIUM SCATTERING PROBLEMS IN NEAR-FIELD OPTICS

A regularized recursive linearization method is developed for a two-dimensional in-verse medium scattering problem that arises in near-field optics, which reconstructs the scatterer of an inhomogeneous medium deposited on a homogeneous substrate from data accessible through photon scanning tunneling microscopy experiments. In addition to the ill-posedness of the inverse scattering problems, two difficulties arise from the layered back-ground medium and limited aperture data. Based on multiple frequency scattering data, the method starts from the Born approximation corresponding to the weak scattering at a low frequency, each update is obtained via recursive linearization with respect to the wavenumber by solving one forward problem and one adjoint problem of the Helmholtz equation. Numerical experiments are included to illustrate the feasibility of the proposed method.     

On the Inverse Scattering Problem for Cubic Eigenvalue Problems of the Class ψxxx + 6Qψx + 6Rψ = λψ

The inverse scattering problem for cubic eigenvalue equations of the form ψ_xxx + 6Qψ_x + 6R_ψ = λψ is outlined and formally solved. Many properties of the scattering data are obtained, the continuous spectrum is briefly discussed, special one soliton solutions are obtained, and the infinity of conserved quantities are determined in terms of the scattering data.