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A method is proposed for the determination of the dispersion equation of Love waves propagating in a homogeneous layer lying over a laterally inhomogeneous half-space. The proposed method can be made to work only when the lateral inhomogeneities in the lower half-space are finite in nature so that their Fourier transforms are available. As an illustration the dispersion equation of Love waves is obtained for one of such media in which the shear-wave velocity and the rigidity in the lower half-space either increases or decreases along the direction of propagation of waves according as the parameter of heterogeneity is positive or negative.
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De, T.K. On love wave dispersion in a homogeneous layer lying over a laterally heterogeneous half-space. PAGEOPH 123, 43–58 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00877048
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