Inverse transmission problems for magnetic Schrödinger operators

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNS218MaRDI QIDQ2878682zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Katsiaryna Krupchyk

Publication date 5 September 2014

Published in IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.3983

zbMATH Keywords

Cauchy datainverse obstacle scatteringinverse transmission problemperturbation of the boundaryreconstruction of potentialSchrödinger operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Schrödinger operator, Schrödinger equation (35J10) Scattering theory for PDEs (35P25) PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) Inverse problems for PDEs (35R30) Inverse problems (including inverse scattering) in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A46)

Abstract: This paper is concerned with the study of inverse transmission problems for magnetic Schr"odinger operators on bounded domains and in all of the Euclidean space, in the self-adjoint case. Assuming that the magnetic and electric potentials are known outside of a transparent obstacle, in the bounded domain case, we show that the obstacle, the transmission coefficients, as well as the magnetic field and electric potential inside the obstacle are uniquely determined from the knowledge of the set of the Cauchy data for the transmission problem, given on an open subset of the boundary of the domain. In the case of the transmission scattering problem, we obtain the same conclusion, when the scattering amplitude at a fixed frequency is known. The problems studied in this work were proposed in [15].

Review text

The present paper generalizes some earlier results of other publications obtained on inverse transmission problems. The proposed transmission problem includes in particular the magnetic Schrödinger operator.NEWLINENEWLINE The main idea is based on a paper by \textit{V. Isakov} [Commun. Math. Phys. 280, No. 3, 843--858 (2008; Zbl 1143.35387)] in which similar problems in the absence of magnetic potentials were studied.NEWLINENEWLINE The goal of this work is to extend such results related to inverse transmission problems for magnetic Schrödinger equations with magnetic potential \(A\) and electric potential \(q\) in the presence of a transparent obstacle \(D\) (plus some suitable conditions on \(A\), \(q\), and the boundary of \(D\)) on bounded domains \(\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n\) \((n\geq 3)\) with connected Lipschitz boundary in the self-adjoint case.NEWLINENEWLINE It is shown that, if the magnetic and electric potentials are known outside the obstacle \(D\) in \(\Omega\), the knowledge of the Cauchy data for the transmission problem prescribed on an open nonempty subset of the boundary \(\partial\Omega\) or from complete scattering data at fixed frequency determines uniquely the obstacle, transmission coefficients, magnetic potential and electric potential inside the obstacle.NEWLINENEWLINE The proofs use the so-called ``singular solutions for the transmission problems technique. This method is distinguished by some estimates for fundamental solutions of the Schrödinger operator, which works in the estimating singular solutions. Also a unique continuations result for the elliptic second-order operators, the mini-max principle to unique solvability of transmission problems by a small perturbation of the boundary \(\partial\Omega\) and finally asymptotic bounds on some volume and surface integrals are required in the reconstruction of the obstacle and of the transmission coefficients. A few nice operational results are added about the relation of the subject to proofs and previous papers. This note is clearly written and provides a valuable contribution to the many aspects of this area.

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• On the scientific work of Victor Isakov
• Stability Estimate for an Inverse Problem for the Time Harmonic Magnetic Schrödinger Operator from the Near and Far Field Patterns
• Inverse scattering for the magnetic Schrödinger operator

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