A UNIQUENESS THEOREM FOR AN INVERSE ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING PROBLEM IN INHOMOGENEOUS ANISOTROPIC MEDIA

We show that the support of a (possibly) coated anisotropic medium is uniquely determined by the electric far-field patterns corresponding to incident time-harmonic electromagnetic plane waves with arbitrary polarization and direction. Our proof avoids the use of a fundamental solution to Maxwell’s equations in an anisotropic medium and instead relies on the well-posedness and regularity properties of solutions to an interior transmission problem for Maxwell’s equations.AMS 2000 Mathematics subject classification: Primary 35R30; 35Q60. Secondary 35P25; 78A45

AN APPROXIMATION PROPERTY OF IMPORTANCE IN INVERSE SCATTERING THEORY

A key step in establishing the validity of the linear sampling method of determining an unknown scattering obstacle $D$ from a knowledge of its far-field pattern is to prove that solutions of the Helmholtz equation in $D$ can be approximated in $H^1(D)$ by Herglotz wave functions.To this end we establish the important property that the set of Herglotz wave functions is dense in the space of solutions of the Helmholtz equation with respect to the Sobolev space $H^1(D)$ norm.AMS 2000 Mathematics subject classification: Primary 35R30. Secondary 35P25