The Green function of the interior transmission problem and its applications

Kyoungsun Kim; Gen Nakamura; Mourad Sini

doi:10.3934/ipi.2012.6.487

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2012, Volume 6, Issue 3: 487-521. Doi: 10.3934/ipi.2012.6.487

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The Green function of the interior transmission problem and its applications

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Department of Mathematics of Inha University, Incheon 402-751
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Department of Mathematics, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810
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Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM), Linz A-4040

Received: February 2012

Revised: May 2012

Published: August 2012

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The interior transmission problem appears naturally in the scattering theory. In this paper, we construct the Green function associated to this problem. In addition, we provide point-wise estimates of this Green function similar to those known for the Green function related to the classical transmission problems. These estimates are, in particular, useful to the study of various inverse scattering problems. Here, we apply them to justify some asymptotic formulas already used for detecting partially coated dielectric mediums from far field measurements.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35J08, 35J25; Secondary: 35S15.

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