A Herglotz wave function is a superposition of incident plane waves,It solves the Helmholtz equation everywhere and is real analytic. The finite sphere area makes the density integrable, so each spatial derivative can be taken under the integral.
Pairing a far-field pattern with the conjugate density of a Herglotz wave function converts the angular integral into boundary data:This follows by substituting the surface representation of an obstacle far-field pattern and interchanging the integrals.
If measured far-field patterns determine a density and its Herglotz wave function equals a prescribed spherical wave on the obstacle boundary, that trace identity can locate the boundary. A star-shaped axisymmetric obstacle can be represented by one radial function . Numerically, expand and in suitable bases, match the far-field constraints, and minimize the complex boundary residual at angular collocation points, using regularization of an inverse problem for noise and small singular values. A single scalar pairing constraint alone does not determine an arbitrary density.
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