Inverse Scattering at Fixed Energy on Three-Dimensional Asymptotically Hyperbolic Stäckel Manifolds

Abstract

In this paper, we study an inverse scattering problem at fixed energy on three-dimensional asymptotically hyperbolic Stäckel manifolds having the topology of toric cylinders and satisfying the Robertson condition. On these manifolds the Helmholtz equation can be separated into a system of a radial ODE and two angular ODEs. We can thus decompose the full scattering operator into generalized harmonics and the resulting partial scattering matrices consist of a countable set of $2\times 2$ matrices whose coefficients are the so-called transmission and reflection coefficients. It is shown that the reflection coefficients are nothing but generalized Weyl–Titchmarsh functions associated with the radial ODE. Using a novel multivariable version of the Complex Angular Momentum method, we show that the knowledge of the scattering operator at a fixed non-zero energy is enough to determine uniquely the metric of the three-dimensional Stäckel manifold up to natural obstructions.