Scattering Poles Near the Real Axis for Two Strictly Convex Obstacles

Abstract

To study the location of poles for the acoustic scattering matrix for two strictly convex obstacles with smooth boundaries, one uses an approximation of the quantized billiard operator $M$ along the trapped ray between the two obstacles. Using this method Ikawa and G{\'e}rard established the existence of parallel rows of poles in a strip $Im z\leq c$ as $Re z$ tends to infinity. Assuming that the boundaries are analytic and the eigenvalues of Poincar{\'e} map are non-resonant we use the Birkhoff normal form for $M$ to improve this result and to get the complete asymptotic expansions for the poles in any logarithmic neighborhood of real axis.