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Quasi-periodic Green's functions of the Helmholtz and Laplace equations

Alexander Moroz



A classical problem of free-space Green's function G representations of the Helmholtz equation is studied in various quasi-periodic cases, i.e., when an underlying periodicity is imposed in less dimensions than is the dimension of an embedding space. Exponentially convergent series for the free-space quasi-periodic G and for the expansion coefficients DL of G in the basis of regular (cylindrical in two dimensions and spherical in three dimension (3D)) waves, or lattice sums, are reviewed and new results for the case of a one-dimensional (1D) periodicity in 3D are derived. From a mathematical point of view, a derivation of exponentially convergent representations for Schlömilch series of cylindrical and spherical Hankel functions of any integer order is accomplished. Exponentially convergent series for G and lattice sums DL hold for any value of the Bloch momentum and allow G to be efficiently evaluated also in the periodicity plane. The quasi-periodic Green's functions of the Laplace equation are obtained from the corresponding representations of G of the Helmholtz equation by taking the limit of the wave vector magnitude going to zero. The derivation of relevant results in the case of a 1D periodicity in 3D highlights the common part which is universally applicable to any of remaining quasi-periodic cases. The results obtained can be useful for the numerical solution of boundary integral equations for potential flows in fluid mechanics, remote sensing of periodic surfaces, periodic gratings, and infinite arrays of resonators coupled to a waveguide, in many contexts of simulating systems of charged particles, in molecular dynamics, for the description of quasi-periodic arrays of point interactions in quantum mechanics, and in various ab initio first-principle multiple-scattering theories for the analysis of diffraction of classical and quantum waves.


PACS

02.30.Jr Partial differential equations

05.50.+q Lattice theory and statistics (Ising, Potts, etc.)

02.30.Rz Integral equations

MSC

35J05 Laplace equation, reduced wave equation (Helmholtz), Poisson equation (See also 31Axx, 31Bxx)

45A05 Linear integral equations

Subjects

Mathematical physics

Statistical physics and nonlinear systems

Dates

Issue 36 (8 September 2006)

Received 3 February 2006, in final form 26 July 2006

Published 18 August 2006



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