Allan Greenleaf, Yaroslav Kurylev, Matti Lassas, Gunther Uhlmann
This survey of recent developments in cloaking and transformation optics is an expanded version of the lecture by Gunther Uhlmann at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Mathematical Society.
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We consider the determination of a conductivity function in a two-dimensional domain from the Cauchy data of the solutions of the conductivity equation on the boundary. We prove uniqueness results for this inverse problem, posed by Calderon, for conductivities that are degenerate, that is, they may not be bounded from above or below. In particular, for scalar conductivities we solve the inverse problem in a class which is larger than $L^\infty$. Also, we give new counterexamples for the uniqueness of the inverse conductivity problem. We say that a conductivity is visible if the inverse problem…
We show that in one dimension the transfer matrix M of any scattering potential v coincides with the S-matrix of an associated time-dependent non-Hermitian 2 x 2 matrix Hamiltonian H(τ). If v is real-valued, H(τ) is pseudo-Hermitian and its exceptional points correspond to the classical turning points of v. Applying time-dependent perturbation theory to H(τ) we obtain a perturbative series expansion for M and use it to study the phenomenon of unidirectional invisibility. In particular, we establish the possibility of having multimode unidirectional invisibility with wavelength-dependent direct…
This paper is concerned with the inverse electromagnetic scattering problem for anisotropic media. We use the interior resonant modes to develop an inverse scattering scheme for imaging the scatterer. The whole procedure consists of three phases. First, we determine the interior Maxwell transmission eigenvalues of the scatterer from a family of far-field data by the mechanism of the linear sampling method. Next, we determine the corresponding transmission eigenfunctions by solving a constrained optimization problem. Finally, based on both global and local geometric properties of the transmissi…
In this note, we present some interesting observations on the Schiffer's conjecture, interior transmission eigenvalue problem and their connections to singular and nonsingular invisibility cloaking problems of acoustic waves.
We investigate two-dimensional invisibility cloaking via transformation optics approach. The cloaking media possess much more singular parameters than those having been considered for three-dimensional cloaking in literature. Finite energy solutions for these cloaking devices are studied in appropriate weighted Sobolev spaces. We derive some crucial properties of the singularly weighted Sobolev spaces. The invisibility cloaking is then justified by decoupling the underlying singular PDEs into one problem in the cloaked region and the other one in the cloaking layer. We derive some completely n…
Achieving exact unidirectional invisibility in a finite frequency band has been an outstanding problem for many years. We offer a simple solution to this problem in two dimensions that is based on our solution to another more basic open problem of scattering theory, namely finding scattering potentials $v(x,y)$ in two dimensions whose scattering problem is exactly solvable for energies not exceeding a critical value $E_c$. This extends the notion of quasi-exact solvability to scattering theory and yields a simple condition under which the first Born approximation gives the exact expression for…
There is currently a great deal of interest in the theoretical and practical possibility of cloaking objects from the observation by electromagnetic waves. The basic idea of these invisibility devices \cite{glu1, glu2, le},\cite{pss1} is to use anisotropic {\it transformation media} whose permittivity and permeability $\var^{λν}, μ^{λν}$, are obtained from the ones, $\var_0^{λν}, μ^{λν}_0$, of isotropic media, by singular transformations of coordinates. In this paper we study electromagnetic cloaking in the time-domain using the formalism of time-dependent scattering theory. This formalism all…
Transformation optics constructions have allowed the design of cloaking devices that steer electromagnetic, acoustic and quantum waves around a region without penetrating it, so that this region is hidden from external observations. The material pa- rameters used to describe these devices are anisotropic, and singular at the interface between the cloaked and uncloaked regions, making physical realization a challenge. These singular material parameters correspond to singular coefficient functions in the partial differential equations modeling these constructions and the presence of these singul…
Is it possible to actually make Harry's invisibility cloaks? The most promising approach for realizing such magical cloaking in our real world would be to use transformation optics, where an empty space with a distorted geometry is imitated with a non-distorted space but filled with transformation medium having appropriate permittivity and permeability. An important requirement for true invisibility cloaks is nonreciprocity; that is, a person in the cloak should not be seen from the outside but should be able to see the outside. This invisibility cloak, or a nonreciprocal shield, cannot be cre…
In this paper, we investigate the anisotropic Calder{ó}n problem on cylindrical Riemannian manifolds with boundary having two ends and equipped with singular metrics of (simple or double) warped product type, that is whose warping factors only depend on the horizontal direction of the cylinder. By singular, we mean that these factors are only assumed to be positive almost everywhere and to belong to some L p space with 0 < p $\le$ $\infty$. Using recent developments on the Weyl-Titchmarsh theory for singular Sturm-Liouville operators, we prove that the local Dirichlet-to-Neumann maps at each e…
This paper is concerned with the invisibility cloaking in acoustic wave scattering from a new perspective. We are especially interested in achieving the invisibility cloaking by completely regular and isotropic mediums. It is shown that an interior transmission eigenvalue problem arises in our study, which is the one considered theoretically in \cite{CCH}. Based on such an observation, we propose a cloaking scheme that takes a three-layer structure including a cloaked region, a lossy layer and a cloaking shell. The target medium in the cloaked region can be arbitrary but regular, whereas the m…
This paper is concerned with the invisibility cloaking in electromagnetic wave scattering from a new perspective. We are especially interested in achieving the invisibility cloaking by completely regular and isotropic mediums. Our study is based on an interior transmission eigenvalue problem. We propose a cloaking scheme that takes a three-layer structure including a cloaked region, a lossy layer and a cloaking shell. The target medium in the cloaked region can be arbitrary but regular, whereas the mediums in the lossy layer and the cloaking shell are both regular and isotropic. We establish t…
A review of the author's results is given. Inversion formulas and stability estimates for the solutions to 3D inverse scattering problems with fixed-energy data are obtained. Inversions of exact and noisy data are stidied. The inverse potential scattering problem is discussed in detail, inversion formulas are derived and error estimates are obtained. Inverse obstacle scattering problem with data at a fixed frequency is studied. Uniqueness theorems and stability estimates are obtained. Inverse geophysical scattering problem is discussed. An algorithm for computing the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map f…
We prove uniqueness of the inverse conductivity problem in three dimensions for complex conductivities in $W^{1,\infty}$. We apply quaternionic analysis to transform the inverse problem into an inverse Dirac scattering problem, as established in two dimensions by Brown and Uhlmann. This is a novel methodology that allows to extend the uniqueness result from once-differentiable real conductivities to complex ones.
We study the direct and an inverse source problem for the radiative transfer equation arising in optical molecular imaging. We show that for generic absorption and scattering coefficients, the direct problem is well-posed and the inverse one is uniquely solvable, with a stability estimate.
The inverse problem of finding the velocity profile from the surface measurements of acoustic field is considered. The dimensionalities of the data and of the unknown velocity profile are equal, both are equal 3. Analytical explicit examples are given showing vast non-uniqueness of the solution to this inverse problem.
It is known that design of elastic cloaks is much more challenging than the design idea for acoustic cloaks, cloaks of electromagnetic waves or scalar problems of anti-plane shear. In this paper, we address fully the fourth-order problem and develop a model of a broadband invisibility cloak for channelling flexural waves in thin plates around finite inclusions. We also discuss an option to employ efficiently an elastic pre-stress and body forces to achieve such a result. An asymptotic derivation provides a rigorous link between the model in question and elastic wave propagation in thin solids.…
We establish a relationship between an inverse optimization spectral problem for N-dimensional Schrödinger equation $ -Δψ+qψ=λψ$ and a solution of the nonlinear boundary value problem $-Δu+q_0 u=λu- u^{γ-1},~~u>0,~~ u|_{\partial Ω}=0$. Using this relationship, we find an exact solution for the inverse optimization spectral problem, investigate its stability and obtain new results on the existence and uniqueness of the solution for the nonlinear boundary value problem.
We review basic ideas and basic examples of the theory of the inverse spectral problems.
A coefficient inverse problem for a parabolic equation is considered. Using a Carleman Weight Function, a globally strictly convex cost functional is constructed for this problem.
In this paper we study the inverse conductivity problem with partial data in dimension $n\geq 3$. We derive stability estimates for this inverse problem if the conductivity has $C^{1,σ}(\barΩ)\cap H^{3/2+σ}(Ω)$ regularity for $0<σ<1$.
Consider two inverse problems for Sturm-Liouville problems on the unit interval. It means that there are two corresponding mappings $F, f$ from a Hilbert space of potentials $H$ into their spectral data. They are called isomorphic if $F$ is a composition of $f$ and some isomorphism $U$ of $H$ onto itself. A isomorphic class is a collection of inverse problems isomorphic to each other. We consider basic Sturm-Liouville problems on the unit interval and on the circle and describe their isomorphic classes of inverse problems. For example, we prove that the inverse problems for the case of Dirichl…
Uniqueness theorems are proved for 3-d inverse scattering problems in the frequency domain under the assumption that only the modulus of the complex valued wave field is measured, while the phase is unknown.
This is a review paper of the role of Carleman estimates in the theory of Multidimensional Coefficient Inverse Problems since the first inception of this idea in 1981.
We transform an inverse scattering problem to be an interior transmission problem. We find an inverse uniqueness on the scatterer with a knowledge of a fixed interior transmission eigenvalue. By examining the solution in a series of spherical harmonics at far fields, we can decide the perturbation uniquely for the radially symmetric perturbations.
In this paper, one dimentional conformable fractional Dirac-type integro differential system is considered. The asymptotic formulae for the solutions, eigenvalues and nodal points are obtained. We investigate the inverse nodal problem and give an effective procedure for solving the inverse nodal problem with respect to given a dense subset of nodal points .
In this paper, we consider inverse scattering and inverse boundary value problems at sufficiently large and fixed energy for the multidimensional relativistic Newton equation with an external potential $V$, $V\in C^2$. Using known results, we obtain, in particular, theorems of uniqueness.
In this paper, a boundary integral method is used to solve an inverse linear heat conduction problem in two-dimensional bounded domain. An inverse problem of measuring the heat flux from partial (on part of the boundary) dynamic boundary measurements is considered. An algorithm is given by using the fundamental solution.
Inverse scattering and spectral one-dimensional problems are discussed systematically in a self-contained way. Many novel results, due to the author are presented. The classical results are often presented in a new way. Several highlights of the new results include: Analysis of the invertibility of the steps in the Gel'fand-Levitan and Marchenko inversion procedures, Theory of the inverse problem with I-function as the data and its applications; Proof of the property C for ordinary differential operators, numerous applications of property C; Inverse problems with "incomplete" data; Spherically…
We give a pedagogical introduction to time-independent scattering theory in one dimension focusing on the basic properties and recent applications of transfer matrices. In particular, we begin surveying some basic notions of potential scattering such as transfer matrix and its analyticity, multi-delta-function and locally periodic potentials, Jost solutions, spectral singularities and their time-reversal, and unidirectional reflectionlessness and invisibility. We then offer a simple derivation of the Lippmann-Schwinger equation and Born series, and discuss the Born approximation. Next, we outl…
In this work we study the inverse scattering problem for the selfadjoint matrix Schrodinger operator on the half line. We provide the necessary and sufficient conditions for the solvability of the inverse scattering problem.
We investigate the asymptotic relation between the inverse problems relying on the Helmholtz equation and the radiative transfer equation (RTE) as physical models, in the high-frequency limit. In particular, we evaluate the asymptotic convergence of a generalized version of inverse scattering problem based on the Helmholtz equation, to the inverse scattering problem of the Liouville equation (a simplified version of RTE). The two inverse problems are connected through the Wigner transform that translates the wave-type description on the physical space to the kinetic-type description on the pha…
Inverse problem relatively domain for the plate under across vibrations is considered. The definition of s-functions is interoduced. The construction for defining of the domain of the plate by given s-functions is offered.
We apply recent results on semi-classical trace formulae and on Birkhoff normal forms for semi-classical Fourier integral operators to a wide range of semi-classical and high energy spectral inverse problems.
We solve the inverse problem for Jacobi operators on the half lattice with finitely supported perturbations, in particular, in terms of resonances. Our proof is based on the results for the inverse eigenvalue problem for specific finite Jacobi matrices and theory of polynomials. We determine forbidden domains for resonances and maximal possible multiplicities of real and complex resonances.
New inverse and half-inverse problems: {\it sliding problems} are introduced. In this way several physically important equations are recovered from the quantum defect. In particular, sliding problems are solved for radial Schrödinger equation, radial Dirac system and multidimensional Schrödinger equation. Systems with Coulomb-type potentials are considered as well.
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