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Boundary Recovery of Anisotropic Electromagnetic Parameters for the Time Harmonic Maxwell's Equations

Analysis of PDEs 2023-03-14 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

This work concerns inverse boundary value problems for the time-harmonic Maxwell's equations on differential 11-forms. We formulate the boundary value problem on a 33-dimensional compact and simply connected Riemannian manifold MM with boundary M\partial M endowed with a Riemannian metric gg. Assuming that the electric permittivity ε\varepsilon and magnetic permeability μ\mu are real-valued anisotropic (i.e (1,1)(1,1)- tensors), we aim to determine certain metrics induced by these parameters, denoted by ε^\hat{\varepsilon} and μ^\hat{\mu} at M\partial M. We show that the knowledge of the impedance and admittance maps determines the tangential entries of ε^\hat{\varepsilon} and μ^\hat{\mu} at M\partial M in their boundary normal coordinates, although the background volume form cannot be determined in such coordinates due to a non-uniqueness occuring from diffeomorphisms that fix the boundary. Then, we prove that in some cases, we can also recover the normal components of μ^\hat{\mu} up to a conformal multiple at M\partial M in boundary normal coordinates for ε^\hat{\varepsilon}. Last, we build an inductive proof to show that if ε^\hat{\varepsilon} and μ^\hat{\mu} are determined at M\partial M in boundary normal coordinates for ε^\hat{\varepsilon}, then the same follows for their normal derivatives of all orders at M\partial M.

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@article{arxiv.2303.06688,
  title  = {Boundary Recovery of Anisotropic Electromagnetic Parameters for the Time Harmonic Maxwell's Equations},
  author = {Sean Holman and Vasiliki Torega},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.06688},
  year   = {2023}
}

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40 pages, 1 figure