A new non-iterative singular sources method for the reconstruction of piecewise constant media. (Q704793)

The author presents the so-called ``singular sources method'' for the reconstruction of a piecewise constant inhomogeneous medium in acoustic scattering from the far field pattern. The method is a non-iterative one. The main idea of the method is to use the behavior of the scatter field for singular incident fields to calculate the size of the refractive index at some point near the boundary of the scatterer and then eliminate this value from the data by subtracting a known piecewise constant background medium. The author applies his method to locating the unknown support of an inhomogeneous medium for a known inhomogeneous background medium and proving the uniqueness of the reconstruction of a piecewise constant medium in two or three dimensions.