The fixed angle scattering problem with a first-order perturbation (Q2051472)

In this paper, the authors study the inverse scattering problem of determining a magnetic field and electric potential from scattering measurements corresponding to finitely many plane waves. They prove that the coefficients of the involved first-order differential operator, belonging to \(\mathcal{C}^m(\mathbb{R}^n)\), for \(m\in \mathbb{N}\), and having compact support in the unit ball of \(\mathbb{R}^n\), are uniquely determined by \(2n\) measurements up to a natural gauge. Besides, they show that the full first-order term can be recovered from a related equation having no gauge invariance, and that it is possible to reduce the number of measurements if the coefficients have certain symmetries. They note that this work is based on wave-equation methods and Carleman estimates and it extends the fixed angle scattering results of \textit{Rakesh} and the third author [SIAM J. Math. Anal. 52, No. 6, 5467--5499 (2020; Zbl 1453.35193); Inverse Probl. 36, No. 3, Article ID 035005, 42 p. (2020; Zbl 1439.35569)] to Hamiltonians with first-order perturbations.