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On uniqueness for time harmonic anisotropic Maxwell's equations with piecewise regular coefficients

Analysis of PDEs 2012-12-07 v1

Abstract

We are interested in the uniqueness of solutions to Maxwell's equations when the magnetic permeability μ\mu and the permittivity ε\varepsilon are symmetric positive definite matrix-valued functions in R3\mathbb{R}^{3}. We show that a unique continuation result for globally W1,W^{1,\infty} coefficients in a smooth, bounded domain, allows one to prove that the solution is unique in the case of coefficients which are piecewise W1,W^{1,\infty} with respect to a suitable countable collection of sub-domains with C0C^{0} boundaries. Such suitable collections include any bounded finite collection. The proof relies on a general argument, not specific to Maxwell's equations. This result is then extended to the case when within these sub-domains the permeability and permittivity are only LL^\infty in sets of small measure.

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@article{arxiv.1201.2006,
  title  = {On uniqueness for time harmonic anisotropic Maxwell's equations with piecewise regular coefficients},
  author = {John M. Ball and Yves Capdeboscq and Basang Tsering Xiao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.2006},
  year   = {2012}
}

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9 pages, 4 figures

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