Wave-scattering from a gently curved surface
arXiv:1606.07694 · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2016.06.058
Abstract
We study wave scattering from a gently curved surface. We show that the recursive relations, implied by shift invariance, among the coefficients of the perturbative series for the scattering amplitude allow to perform an infinite resummation of the perturbative series to all orders in the amplitude of the corrugation. The resummed series provides a derivative expansion of the scattering amplitude in powers of derivatives of the height profile, which is expected to become exact in the limit of quasi-specular scattering. We discuss the relation of our results with the so-called small-slope approximation introduced some time ago by Voronovich.
arXiv comment5 pages, accepted for publication in Phys. Lett. B
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