White-noise and geometrical optics limits of Wigner-Moyal equation for beam waves in turbulent media. II: Two-frequency formulation (Q2583189)

The subject of the paper is the understanding of stochastic pulse propagation analysis which is usually based on spectral decomposition of the time dependent signal into time-harmonic wave fields. So the complete information about transient propagation requires a solution for the statistical moments of the wave field at different frequencies and locations. The first aim of this work is to establish a general two-frequency framework and the second to use this framework to get the concrete rigorous results. To study the scaling limits of the wave propagation in a turbulent medium at two different frequencies the author introduces a two-frequency Wigner distribution in the setting of the parabolic approximation. He shows that the two-frequency Wigner distribution satisfies a closed-form equation (the two-frequency Wigner-Moyal equation). It was shown, in the white-noise limit, the convergence of weak solutions of the two-frequency Wigner-Moyal equation to a Markovian model and thus proved rigorously the Markovian approximation with power-spectral densities. He also proved the convergence of the simultaneous geometrical optics limit whose mean field equation has a simple, universal form and is exactly solvable. For Part I, cf. Commun. Math. Phys. 254, No. 2, 289--322 (2005).