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Solving the scattering problem for open wave-guide networks, II: Outgoing estimates

Charles L. Epstein

Vol. 8 (2026), No. 3, 587–639
Abstract

The paper continues the analysis, started in Part I, of the model open wave-guide network scattering problem defined by 2 semi-infinite, rectangular wave-guides meeting along a common perpendicular line. In Part I we reduce the solution of the scattering problem to a transmission problem rephrased as a system of integral equations on the common perpendicular line. In this part we show that solutions of the integral equations introduced in Part I have asymptotic expansions, if the data allows it. Using these expansions we show that the solutions to the PDE found in each half space have asymptotic expansions that imply that they satisfy appropriate outgoing radiation conditions. The radiation conditions are given in Part III, where we show that they imply uniqueness of the solution to the PDE, as well as uniqueness for our system of integral equations.

Keywords
open wave-guide, scattering, fundamental solution, asymptotic analysis, contour deformation, outgoing conditions for sources
Mathematical Subject Classification
Primary: 35A08, 35P25, 45M05, 78A40, 78A50
Milestones
Received: 20 November 2023
Revised: 30 March 2026
Accepted: 29 May 2026
Published: 18 July 2026
Authors
Charles L. Epstein
Center for Computational Mathematics
Flatiron Institute of the Simons Foundation
New York, NY
United States