On a property of the set of radiation patterns (Q792550)

Let u be the solution of \((\Delta +k^ 2)u=0\); \(u|_{\partial D}=h\), where D is a bounded obstacle with smooth boundary in \({\mathbb{R}}^ 3\). The radiation pattern f associated with h is defined by \(f(n)=\lim_{r\to \infty}\quad r\quad e^{-ikr}\quad u(rn), n\in R^ 3\), \(| n| =1\). In this paper it is shown that the set of radiation patterns is dense in \(L_ 2(S_ 2)\) if h runs through a dense subset of\(L_ 2(\partial \quad D)\). Moreover, it is shown that the dimension of the kernel of a cetain operator associated with the radiation pattern is equal to the dimension of the eigenspace of the Dirichlet problem to \(\Delta +k^ 2\) in D.