The linear sampling method for anisotropic media (Q1860379)

The authors present an analysis of the linear sampling method to determine the support of an anisotropic inhomogeneous penetrable scatterer from a knowledge of the incident and scattered time harmonic acoustic wave at fixed frequency. They extend the results of \textit{D. Colton, R. Kress} and \textit{P. Monk} [J. Comput. Appl. Math. 81, 269-298 (1997; Zbl 0885.35143)] to the case of (possibly) complex-valued anisotropic medium that does not vary smoothly across the boundary. The method is based on an analysis of the interior transmission problem, and the paper also gives appropriate conditions under which the set of transmission eigenvalues is discrete.