Geometrical Characterizations of Non-Radiating Sources at Polyhedral and Conical Corners with Applications

Abstract

Considering the acoustic source scattering problems, when the source is non-radiating/invisible, we investigate the geometrical characterization for the underlying sources at polyhedral and conical corner. It is revealed that the non-radiating source with Hölder continuous regularity must vanish at the corner. Using this kind of geometrical characterization of non-radiating sources, we establish local and global unique determination for a source with the polyhedral or corona shape support by a single far field measurement. Uniqueness by a single far field measurement constitutes of a long standing problem in inverse scattering problems.