Numerical Solution of the Lippmann–Schwinger Equation by Approximate Approximations.

A new method for the numerical solution of volume integral equations is proposed and applied to a Lippmann–Schwinger type equation in diffraction theory. The approximate solution is represented as a linear combination of the scaled and shifted Gaussian. We prove spectral convergence of the method up to some negligible saturation error. The theoretical results are confirmed by a numerical experiment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]