Resonances and  balls in obstacle scattering with Neumann boundary conditions

T. J. Christiansen

doi:10.3934/ipi.2008.2.335

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2008, Volume 2, Issue 3: 335-340. Doi: 10.3934/ipi.2008.2.335

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Resonances and balls in obstacle scattering with Neumann boundary conditions

T. J. Christiansen^1,

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Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211

Received: January 2008

Revised: June 2008

Published online: July 2008

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We consider scattering by a smooth obstacle in $R^d$, $d\geq 3 $ odd. We show that for the Neumann Laplacian if an obstacle has the same resonances as the ball of radius $\rho$ does, then the obstacle is a ball of radius $\rho$. We give related results for obstacles which are disjoint unions of several balls of the same radius.

Keywords:

resonances,
inverse problems.

Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35P25; Secondary: 47A40, 81U40.

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