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

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

2006-02-08

arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0602021v2

J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 39, 11247-11282 (2006)

Physics

Mathematical Physics

60 pages, 5 figures; no change in the results; introduction rewritten, refined sectioning, Fig. 1 amended, 3 references added

Scientific paper

10.1088/0305-4470/39/36/009

A classical problem of free-space Green's function $G_{0\Lambda}$ 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 $G_{0\Lambda}$ and for the expansion coefficients $D_{L}$ of $G_{0\Lambda}$ 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 Schl\"{o}milch series of cylindrical and spherical Hankel functions of any integer order is accomplished. The quasi-periodic Green's functions of the Laplace equation are obtained from the corresponding representations of $G_{0\Lambda}$ 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 numerical solution of boundary integral equations for potential flows in fluid mechanics, remote sensing of periodic surfaces, periodic gratings, 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.

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