scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3535147
After having drawn the reader's attention to \textit{L. D. Faddeev}'s review article on inverse scattering theory of 1959 [Usp. Mat. Nauk 14, No. 4 (88), 57--119 (1959; Zbl 0091.21902); translation in \textit{L. D. Faddeev} and \textit{B. Seckler}, J. Math. Phys. 4, 72--104 (1963; Zbl 0112.45101)] and having stated the problem the author gives a short account on the history of the subject and the growing insight into the problem, in particular, he reports Bargmann's considerations leading to families of potentials which give the same phase shifts. Then Gelfand-Levitan's solution by a variational method in the author's formulation is described in some detail. The method is based on minimizing a certain expression without any obvious physical motivation. The author's motivation for this approach is explained in the last part of the paper. He considered a problem of optics, not related obviously to inverse scattering, and found an operator expression identical with the expression to be minimized in Gelfand-Levitan's method. Then he discusses some formal analogies between control theory and inverse scattering. Finally some results on extending the Gelfand-Levitan construction to the multi-channel case are reported.
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