Inverse scattering by point-like scatterers in the Foldy regime

Abstract: We are concerned with the acoustic scattering problem, at a frequency

k a p p a

, by many small obstacles of arbitrary shapes with impedance boundary condition. These scatterers are assumed to be included in a bounded domain

O m e g a

in

m a t h b b R^{3}

which is embedded in an acoustic background characterized by an eventually locally varying index of refraction. The collection of the scatterers

D_{m},; m = 1, ..., M

is modeled by four parameters: their number

M

, their maximum radius

a

, their minimum distance

d

and the surface impedances

l a m b d a_{m},; m = 1, ..., M

. We consider the parameters

M, d

and

l a m b d a_{m}

's having the following scaling properties:

M := M (a) = O (a^{- s})

,

d := d (a) a p p r o x a^{t}

and

, as

a i g h t a r r o w 0

, with non negative constants

s, t

and

and complex numbers

l a m b d a_{m, 0}

's with eventually negative imaginary parts. We derive the asymptotic expansion of the farfields with explicit error estimate in terms of

a

, as

a i g h t a r r o w 0

. The dominant term is the Foldy-Lax field corresponding to the scattering by the point-like scatterers located at the centers

z_{m}

's of the scatterers

D_{m}

's with

l a m b d a_{m} v e r t p a r t i a l D_{m} v e r t

as the related scattering coefficients.

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