On the Regularity of Non-scattering Anisotropic Inhomogeneities

Abstract

In this paper we examine the 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 that 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 $$0<\alpha <1$$ .