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Incoming and disappearing solutions for Maxwell's equations

Mathematical Physics 2010-11-18 v2 Analysis of PDEs math.MP

Abstract

We prove that in contrast to the free wave equation in R3\R^3 there are no incoming solutions of Maxwell's equations in the form of spherical or modulated spherical waves. We construct solutions which are corrected by lower order incoming waves. With their aid, we construct dissipative boundary conditions and solutions to Maxwell's equations in the exterior of a sphere which decay exponentially as t+t \to +\infty. They are asymptotically disappearing. Disappearing solutions which are identically zero for tT>0t \geq T > 0 are constructed which satisfy maximal dissipative boundary conditions which depend on time tt. Both types are invisible in scattering theory.

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@article{arxiv.1009.0564,
  title  = {Incoming and disappearing solutions for Maxwell's equations},
  author = {Ferruccio Colombini and Vesselin Petkov and Jeffrey Rauch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.0564},
  year   = {2010}
}
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