Recovering singularities of a potential from singularities of scattering data (Q1311704)

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Recovering singularities of a potential from singularities of scattering data
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    Recovering singularities of a potential from singularities of scattering data (English)
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    26 June 1994
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    The authors consider recovery of a compactly supported potential \(q\) on \(\mathbb{R}^ n\), \(n\geq 3\), of the Schrödinger equation \(-\Delta+q\) from the backscattering data \(A(\omega, -\omega,\lambda)\), \(\omega\in S^{n- 1}\), \(\lambda\in\mathbb{R}\), where \(A\) is the scattering amplitude (far field pattern) of this Schrödinger operator. Recently \textit{G. Eskin} and \textit{J. Ralston} [Commun. Math. Phys. 124, No. 2, 169-215 (1989; Zbl 0706.35136)] proved that the map from \(q\) to the backscattering data is a locally invertible for generic (``almost all'') \(q\), however still there is no global uniqueness result for \(q\). By using the associated wave equation and microlocal analysis the authors prove uniqueness of recovery of a smooth surface \(S\) and normal jumps of \(q\) and its derivatives across \(S\).
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    Schrödinger equation
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    backscattering data
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    wave equation
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    microlocal analysis
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    uniqueness of recovery of a smooth surface
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