English

The Spectral Analysis of the Interior Transmission Eigenvalue Problem for Maxwell's Equations

Analysis of PDEs 2021-04-05 v3

Abstract

In this paper we consider the transmission eigenvalue problem for Maxwell's equations corresponding to non-magnetic inhomogeneities with contrast in electric permittivity that has fixed sign (only) in a neighborhood of the boundary. We study this problem in the framework of semiclassical analysis and relate the transmission eigenvalues to the spectrum of a Hilbert-Schmidt operator. Under the additional assumption that the contrast is constant in a neighborhood of the boundary, we prove that the set of transmission eigenvalues is discrete, infinite and without finite accumulation points. A notion of generalized eigenfunctions is introduced and a denseness result is obtained in an appropriate solution space.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1707.04815,
  title  = {The Spectral Analysis of the Interior Transmission Eigenvalue Problem for Maxwell's Equations},
  author = {Houssem Haddar and Shixu Meng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.04815},
  year   = {2021}
}
R2 v1 2026-06-22T20:48:05.187Z