Scattering Poles Near the Real Axis for Two Strictly Convex Obstacles

Alexei Iantchenko

Published 2007-02-01Version 1

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.