Uniqueness in inverse acoustic and electromagnetic scattering by penetrable obstacles with embedded objects (Q1797846)

The article discusses an inverse scattering problem for the Helmholtz and Maxwell equations. The scatterer is a \(C^2\) smooth sound-soft scatterer with possible embedded sound-hard obstacles. A known constant background is assumed. The paper covers both the case where there is a jump in normal derivative across the boundary of the scatterer, and the case where no such jump exists, but the index of refraction has a jump. In the latter case, a key idea is to consider a sufficiently small domain, so that a given wave number is not an eigenvalue of the interior transmission problem. The authors also provide a priori estimates for solutions with data in \(L^p\) for \(p < 2\).