The reflectionless properties of Toeplitz waves and Hankel waves: an analysis via Bessel functions

DOI10.1016/J.AMC.2020.125576zbMATH Open1474.65419arXiv2005.04561OpenAlexW3081301239MaRDI QIDQ2660367FDOQ2660367

Authors: S. MacNamara, Kevin Burrage, Pamela M. Burrage 

Publication date: 30 March 2021

Published in: Applied Mathematics and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study reflectionless properties at the boundary for the wave equation in one space dimension and time, in terms of a well-known matrix that arises from a simple discretisation of space. It is known that all matrix functions of the familiar second difference matrix representing the Laplacian in this setting are the sum of a Toeplitz matrix and a Hankel matrix. The solution to the wave equation is one such matrix function. Here, we study the behaviour of the corresponding waves that we call Toeplitz waves and Hankel waves. We show that these waves can be written as certain linear combinations of even Bessel functions of the first kind. We find exact and explicit formulae for these waves. We also show that the Toeplitz and Hankel waves are reflectionless on even, respectively odd, traversals of the domain. Our analysis naturally suggests a new method of computer simulation that allows control, so that it is possible to choose -- in advance -- the number of reflections. An attractive result that comes out of our analysis is the appearance of the well-known shift matrix, and also other matrices that might be thought of as Hankel versions of the shift matrix. By revealing the algebraic structure of the solution in terms of shift matrices, we make it clear how the Toeplitz and Hankel waves are indeed reflectionless at the boundary on even or odd traversals. Although the subject of the reflectionless boundary condition has a long history, we believe the point of view that we adopt here in terms of matrix functions is new.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.04561

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zbMATH Keywords

Bessel functionsmatrix functionsHankel wavesone-way wavesToeplitz waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical linear algebra (65F99) Norms of matrices, numerical range, applications of functional analysis to matrix theory (15A60) Toeplitz, Cauchy, and related matrices (15B05) Bessel and Airy functions, cylinder functions, ({}_0F_1) (33C10) Finite difference methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N06) Numerical computation of matrix exponential and similar matrix functions (65F60)

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