Necessary and sufficient condition for \(L\) to have property \(C\) (Q1176902)

The author has introduced the notion of property \(C\) for a pair of partial linear differential expressions \(L_ 1\) and \(L_ 2\). This pair has property \(C\) iff the set of products of solutions to the equations \(L_ 1u=0\) and \(L_ 2w=0\) is complete in \(L^ 2(D)\), where \(D\) is an arbitrary compact region in \(R^ n\), \(n>1\). The operator \(L\) is said to have property \(C\) iff the pair \(\{L,L\}\) has property \(C\). Necessary and sufficient conditions are given for \(L\) with constant coefficients to have property \(C\). This condition applies to the pair of formal PDE operators with constant coefficients. All the classical operators (Laplacian, the heat, wave and Schrödinger operators) with constant coefficients do have property \(C\). In a series of papers [e.g., Inverse Probl. 6, 635-641 (1990; Zbl 0728.35151)] the author demonstrated many applications of property \(C\) to multidimensional inverse problems. In the author's monograph, Multidimensional Inverse Scattering Problems, Longman, New York (1992), the notion of property \(C\) is developed and used in a study of many inverse problems and integral geometry problems.