The purpose of this article is to define the radiation fields on asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds and to use them to study scattering theory. The radiation fields on R n and on asymptotically Euclidean manifolds were introduced by F.G. Friedlander in a series of papers starting in the early 1960’s [10, 11, 12, 13, 14]. His program of using the radiation fields to obtain the scattering matrix in that general setting was

Abstract. We describe recent theoretical and experimental progress on making objects invisible. Ideas for devices that would have once seemed fanciful may now be at least approximately realized physically, using a new class of artificially structured materials, metamaterials. The equations that govern a variety of wave phenomena, including electrostatics, electromagnetism, acoustics and quantum mechanics, have transformation laws under changes of variables which allow one to design material parameters that steer waves around a hidden region, returning them to their original path on the far side. Not only are observers unaware of the contents of the hidden region, they are not even aware that something is being hidden; the object, which casts no shadow, is said to be cloaked. Proposals for, and even experimental implementations of, such cloaking devices have received the most attention, but other devices having striking effects on wave propagation, unseen in nature, are also possible. These designs are initially based on the transformation laws of the relevant PDEs, but due to the singular transformations needed for the desired effects, care needs to be taken in formulating and analyzing physically meaningful solutions. We recount the recent history of the subject and discuss some of the mathematical and physical issues involved. 1.

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The inverse spectral problem on a Riemannian manifold (M, g), possibly with boundary, is to determine as much as possible of the geometry of (M, g) from the spectrum of its Laplacian ∆g (with some given boundary conditions). The special inverse problem of Kac is to determine a Euclidean domain Ω ⊂ R n up

Abstract: The article deals with electrodynamics in the presence of anisotropic materials having scalar wave impedance. Maxwell’s equations written for differential forms over a 3-manifold are analysed. The system is extended to a Dirac type first order elliptic system on the Grassmannian bundle over the manifold. The second part of the article deals with the dynamical inverse boundary value problem of determining the electromagnetic material parameters from boundary measurements. By using the boundary control method, it is proved that the dynamical boundary data determines the electromagnetic travel time metric as well as the scalar wave impedance on the manifold. This invariant result leads also to a complete characterization of the non-uniqueness of the corresponding inverse problem in bounded domains of R 3.

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