Characterization of the shape of a scattering obstacle using the spectral data of the far field operator

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Abstract
This paper is concerned with the inverse obstacle scattering problem for time harmonic plane waves. We derive a factorization of the far field operator F in the form and prove that the ranges of and G coincide. Then we give an explicit characterization of the scattering obstacle which uses only the spectral data of the far field operator F. This result is used to prove a convergence result for a recent numerical method proposed by Colton, Kirsch, Monk, Piana and Potthast. We illustrate this method by some numerical examples.