Regularized transformation-optics cloaking for the Helmholtz equation: from partial cloak to full cloak (Q2339168)

The authors develop a general theory of the regularized approximate invisibility cloaking for the wave scattering governed by the equation \[ \mathrm{div}(\sigma\nabla u)+k^2qu=0\,,\quad \mathrm{in}\,\,\,\mathbb{R}^N\,, \] where a weak solution \(u=u(x,d,k)\) (\(|d|=1, k\in\mathbb{R}_+\)) is such that \(u(x,d,k)-\exp(ikx\cdot d)\) satisfies the radiation condition at infinity. The symmetric matrix \(\sigma(x)\) is elliptic in the sense that there exists a positive constant \(\lambda\) such that \[ \lambda|\xi|^2\leq\sum\sigma^{ij}(x)\xi_i\xi_j\leq\lambda^{-1}|\xi|^2\,,\quad \xi\in\mathbb{R}^N, \] almost everywhere. The potential \(q=q_1+iq_2\) is a bounded measurable complex-valued function, \(q_1(x)\geq\alpha\in (0, 1]\) and \(q_2(x)\geq 0\). Furthermore, outside a bounded Lipschitz domain \(q(x)=q_0=1\) and \(\sigma^{ij}(x)=\sigma^{ij}_0=\delta_{ij}\).