Unbounded potential recovery in the plane

Abstract

We reconstruct compactly supported potentials with only half a derivative in L from the scattering amplitude at a fixed energy. For this we draw a connection between the recently introduced method of Bukhgeim, which uniquely determined the potential from the Dirichletto-Neumann map, and a question of Carleson regarding the convergence to initial data of solutions to time-dependent Schrödinger equations. We also provide examples of compactly supported potentials, with s derivatives in L for any s < 1/2, which cannot be recovered by these means. Thus the recovery method has a different threshold in terms of regularity than the corresponding uniqueness result.