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Volume 55

Number 6, December 2000

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COMMUNICATIONS OF THE MOSCOW MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY

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We study the problem of reconstructing the potential of the two-dimensional Schrödinger operator from scattering data measured at fixed energy. This problem, in contrast to the general multidimensional inverse problem, possesses an infinite-dimensional symmetry algebra generated by the Novikov-Veselov hierarchy and hence is "exactly soluble" in some sense; the complexity of the answer is approximately the same as in the one-dimensional problem. We make heavy use of methods developed in modern soliton theory. Since the quantum fixed-energy scattering problem is mathematically equivalent to the acoustic single-frequency scattering problem, we see that the results of the present paper apply in both cases.

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In this paper we study the similarity between local topology and its global analogue, so-called asymptotic topology. In the asymptotic case, the notions of dimension, cohomological dimension, and absolute extensor are introduced and some basic facts about them are proved. The Higson corona functor establishing a connection between macro- and micro-topology is considered. A relationship between problems of general asymptotic topology and the Novikov conjecture on higher signatures is discussed. Some new results concerning the Novikov conjecture and other related conjectures are presented.