Smart Rewritings of the Basic Equations for Quantitative Non-Linear Inverse Scattering

Abstract

Nonlinearity arising from mutual interactions is one of the two main difficulties to be addressed in inverse scattering. In this paper, we review and describe under a common rationale some approaches which have been introduced in literature in order to counteract nonlinearity. In particular, we focus on possible rewritings of the Lippman Schwinger basic equation such to reduce the degree of nonlinearity of inverse scattering problem. In detail, three different rewritings are discussed and compared by emphasizing similarities and the differences, and in the same rewriting spirit, we also summarize and discuss the Virtual Experiments framework. Then, some possible joint exploitations of the above concepts are introduced, discussed and tested against numerical examples.