Inverse backscattering in two dimensions (Q804848)

The authors extend their previous work [ibid. 124, No.2, 169-215 (1989; Zbl 0706.35136)] on inverse backscattering in three dimensions to two dimensional case. The new difficulty arises from the zero energy behaviour of backscattering amplitude, which, generically, has the form: \[ a(\xi /| \xi |,-\xi /| \xi |,| \xi |)=2\pi (2\pi \beta +\ln | \xi |)^{-1}+b(\xi), \] where \(b(0)=0\) and b(\(\xi\)) is Hölder \(\alpha\)-continuous, \(0<\alpha <1\). Let \(H_{\alpha,N}\) denote the weighted Hölder space. The authors prove that the mapping to the backscattering data is a local analytical diffeomorphism of \(H_{\alpha,N}\) on a dense open set of \(H_{\alpha,N}\), for \(0<\alpha <1/2\), and \(N>0\).