Scattering of radiation by a quasiperiodic two-dimensional medium (Q1101612)

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Scattering of radiation by a quasiperiodic two-dimensional medium
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    Scattering of radiation by a quasiperiodic two-dimensional medium (English)
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    We study the scattering of radiation by a medium presenting inhomogeneities distributed in a quasiperiodic way. We show the existence of quasiperiodic solutions of the two-dimensional stationary wave equation, under certain conditions on the index of refraction, using a technique based on Dinaburg-Sinai method for one-dimensional Schrödinger equation with a quasiperiodic potential. Moreover we show that the energy spectrum contains a nonempty absolutely continuous component, with a subset having high degeneracy, provided the inhomogeneities are small enough.
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    absolutely continuous spectrum
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    degeneracy
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    scattering of radiation
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    quasiperiodic
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    existence
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    stationary wave equation
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    index of refraction
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    Dinaburg-Sinai method
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    Schrödinger equation
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    quasiperiodic potential
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    energy spectrum
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