Abstract
Abstract The study of a time-periodic solution of the multidimensional wave equation ∂ 2 ∂ t 2 u ~ - Δ x u ~ = f ~ ( x , t ) {\frac{\partial^{2}}{\partial t^{2}}\widetilde{u}-\Delta_{x}\widetilde{u}=% \widetilde{f}(x,t)} , u ~ ( x , t ) = e i k t u ( x ) {\widetilde{u}(x,t)=e^{ikt}u(x)} , over the whole space ℝ 3 {\mathbb{R}^{3}} leads to the condition of the Sommerfeld radiation at infinity. This is a problem that describes the motion of scattering stationary waves from a source that is in a bounded area. The inverse problem of finding this source is equivalent to reducing the Sommerfeld problem to a boundary value problem for the Helmholtz equation in a finite domain. Therefore, the Sommerfeld problem is a special inverse problem. It should be noted that in the work of Bezmenov [I. V. Bezmenov, Transfer of Sommerfeld radiation conditions to an artificial boundary of the region based on the variational principle, Sb. Math. 185 1995, 3, 3–24] approximate forms of such boundary conditions were found. In [T. S. Kalmenov and D. Suragan, Transfer of Sommerfeld radiation conditions to the boundary of a limited area, J. Comput. Math. Math. Phys. 52 2012, 6, 1063–1068], for a complex parameter λ, an explicit form of these boundary conditions was found through the boundary condition of the Helmholtz potential given by the integral in the finite domain Ω: ($*$) u ( x , λ ) = ∫ Ω ε ( x - ξ , λ ) ρ ( ξ , λ ) </