An Introduction to Inverse Scattering and Inverse Spectral Problems

DOI10.1137/1.9780898719710zbMath0870.35121MaRDI QIDQ4337861

William Rundell, David Colton, Lassi Päivärinta, K. Chadan

Publication date: 27 May 1997

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1137/1.9780898719710

zbMATH Keywords

KdV equation; inverse Sturm-Liouville problem; far-field data; index of refraction; Gel'fand-Levitan method; inverse scattering theory for electromagnetic problems; inverse-scattering problems for the Schrödinger equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35P25: Scattering theory for PDEs

35R30: Inverse problems for PDEs

81U40: Inverse scattering problems in quantum theory

34-01: Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to ordinary differential equations

34A55: Inverse problems involving ordinary differential equations

47A40: Scattering theory of linear operators

34L25: Scattering theory, inverse scattering involving ordinary differential operators

81-01: Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to quantum theory

35-01: Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to partial differential equations

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