In-out decomposition of boundary integral equations

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/46/43/435203MaRDI QIDQ2857977zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stephen C. Creagh, Hanya Ben Hamdin, Gregor Tanner

Publication date 19 November 2013

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.3885

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Wave front sets in context of PDEs (35A18) Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics (78A60) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Quantum chaos (81Q50) Quantum optics (81V80)

Abstract: We propose a reformulation of the boundary integral equations for the Helmholtz equation in a domain in terms of incoming and outgoing boundary waves. We obtain transfer operator descriptions which are exact and thus incorporate features such as diffraction and evanescent coupling; these effects are absent in the well known semiclassical transfer operators in the sense of Bogomolny. It has long been established that transfer operators are equivalent to the boundary integral approach within semiclassical approximation. Exact treatments have been restricted to specific boundary conditions (such as Dirichlet or Neumann). The approach we propose is independent of the boundary conditions, and in fact allows one to decouple entirely the problem of propagating waves across the interior from the problem of reflecting waves at the boundary. As an application, we show how the decomposition may be used to calculate Goos-H"anchen shifts of ray dynamics in billiards with variable boundary conditions and for dielectric cavities.

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