Invisibility via reflecting coating

DOI10.1112/JLMS/JDT019MaRDI QIDQ2854244zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors K. Burdzy, T. Kulczycki

Publication date 18 October 2013

Published in Journal of the London Mathematical Society. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.3735

zbMATH Keywords

blockfractalinvisible mirrorlight rayshadow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fractals (28A80)

Abstract: We construct a subset $A$ of the unit disc with the following properties. (i) The set $A$ is the finite union of disjoint line segments. (ii) The shadow of $A$ is arbitrarily close to the shadow of the unit disc in "most" directions. (iii) If the line segments are considered to be mirrors reflecting light according to the classical law of specular reflection then most light rays hitting the set emerge on the other side of the disc moving along a parallel line and shifted by an arbitrarily small amount. We also construct a set which reflects almost all light rays coming from one direction to another direction but its shadow is arbitrarily small in other directions, except for an arbitrarily small family of directions.

Review text

The authors construct a subset \(A\) of the unit disc with the following properties. (i) The set \(A\) is a finite union of disjoint line segments. (ii) The shadow of \(A\) is arbitrarily close to the shadow of the unit disc in `most' directions. (iii) If the line segments are considered to be mirrors reflecting light according to the classical law of specular reflection, then most light rays hitting the set emerge on the other side of the disc moving along a parallel line and shifted by an arbitrarily small amount. They also construct a set which reflects almost all light rays coming from one direction to another direction but its shadow is arbitrarily small in other directions, except for an arbitrarily small family of directions.

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