Determining a sound-soft polyhedral scatterer by a single far-field measurement

Alessandrini, Giovanni; Rondi, Luca

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-05-07810-X

Determining a sound-soft polyhedral scatterer by a single far-field measurement
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Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 133 (2005), 1685-1691 Request permission

Abstract:

We prove that a sound-soft polyhedral scatterer is uniquely determined by the far-field pattern corresponding to an incident plane wave at one given wavenumber and one given incident direction.

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