Scattering

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Informally, scattering refers to the tendency of solutions to a nonlinear equation to converge asymptotically as t \to \pm \infty to solutions of the linear equation. Scattering can be formalized by rigorous results establishing the existence and surjectivity of wave operators; the surjectivity is also known as asymptotic completeness.