On the Regularity of Non-Scattering Anisotropic Inhomogeneities

TL;DR

This paper investigates the conditions under which anisotropic inhomogeneous media do not scatter waves, linking non-scattering to boundary regularity and utilizing advanced PDE techniques.

Contribution

It establishes necessary boundary regularity conditions for non-scattering in anisotropic inhomogeneities, advancing understanding of wave interaction with complex media.

Findings

Non-scattering requires boundary of class C^{1,α}.

Regularity results are derived using Hodograph transform.

Conditions are specified for smooth anisotropic media.

Abstract

In this paper we examine necessary conditions for an anisotropic inhomogeneous medium to be non-scattering at a single wave number and for a single incident field. These conditions are expressed in terms of the regularity of the boundary of the inhomogeneity. We assume that the coefficients, characterizing the constitutive material properties of the medium, are sufficiently smooth, and the incident wave is appropriately non-degenerate. Our analysis utilizes the Hodograph transform as well as regularity results for nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations. Our approach requires that the boundary a-priori is of class $C^{1,\alpha}$ for some $0<\alpha<1$.