On the transmission eigenvalue problem for the acoustic equation with a negative index of refraction and a practical numerical reconstruction method (Q2413486)

The paper under review deals with two-dimensional Maxwell equations with transverse magnetic mode in pseudo-chiral media. The analysis is carried out on the acoustic equation with a negative index of refraction. The authors are first concerned with the transmission eigenvalue problem for this equation. By the continuous finite element method, the reduced equation is discretized and the analysis is transformed to a quadratic eigenvalue problem by deflating all nonphysical zeros. Next, the authors establish a numerical method to reconstruct the support of the inhomogeneity by the near-field measurements. The truncated singular value decomposition is proposed to solve the ill-posed near-field integral equation, at one wave number which is not a transmission eigenvalue. This method produces different jumps for the sampling points inside and outside the support. Some numerical simulations illustrate some of the results established in this paper.