Stable determination by a single measurement, scattering bound and regularity of transmission eigenfunctions (Q2119714)

\noindent In this paper, the authors investigate an inverse electromagnetic scattering problem concerning the determination of the cross section of an infinitely long cylindrical configuration by using a transverse electromagnetic scattering measurement. Precisely, the associated direct problem refers to the transverse magnetic scattering due to the impingement of an incident field \(u^i\) on an infinitely-long cylindrical object whose cross section is \(D\). The corresponding inverse problem is to recover \(D\), independently of the material parameters of the problem (namely independently of its dielectric permittivity and magnetic permeability), by knowledge of the far-field pattern \(u^{\infty}\) corresponding a single incident field \(u^i\). For this inverse scattering problem, a sharp logarithmic stability result is established in determining a polygonal scatterer by means of a single far-field measurement. This main stability result of the paper is contained in Theorem 1.1. It is shown that if a scatterer possesses an admissible corner on its support, then there exists a positive lower bound of the \(L^2\)-norm of the associated far-field pattern. Besides, for the transmission resonance, a quantitative connection is derived between the regularity of the transmission eigenfunction at a corner and its analytic or Fourier extension.