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Local uniqueness for the fixed energy fixed angle inverse problem in obstacle scattering

Author(s): Plamen Stefanov; Gunther Uhlmann
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 132 (2004), 1351-1354.
MSC (2000): Primary 35R30; Secondary 81U40, 35P25
Posted: December 23, 2003
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Abstract: We prove local uniqueness for the inverse problem in obstacle scattering at a fixed energy and fixed incident angle.


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Additional Information:

Plamen Stefanov
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
Email: stefanov@math.purdue.edu

Gunther Uhlmann
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195
Email: gunther@math.washington.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-03-07363-5
PII: S 0002-9939(03)07363-5
Received by editor(s): August 19, 2002
Posted: December 23, 2003
Additional Notes: The first author was partly supported by NSF Grant DMS-0196440 and MSRI
The second author was partly supported by NSF Grant DMS-007048 and a John Simon Guggenheim fellowship. Both authors would like to thank the hospitality of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute where part of this work was done
Communicated by: David S. Tartakoff
Copyright of article: Copyright 2003, American Mathematical Society


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