An inverse boundary value problem for Maxwell's equations (Q1199687)

In this paper the authors prove uniqueness of recovery of electric permittivity \(\varepsilon\), magnetic permeability \(\mu\) and electrical conductivity \(\sigma\) entering the classical stationary Maxwell's system given the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map. They assume that all three unknown parameters are functions which are \(C^ 7\)-close to constants. This paper is a generalization of the fundamental paper of \textit{J. Sylvester} and \textit{G. Uhlmann} [Ann. Math., II. Ser. 125, 153-169 (1987; Zbl 0625.35078)] and similar methods are used. Recently \textit{P. Ola}, \textit{L. Paeivaerinta} and \textit{E. Somersalo}, ``An inverse boundary value problem in electrodynamics'' [Duke Math. J. (in print)] obtained a global uniqueness result assuming only that these parameters minus certain constants are in \(C_ 0^ 3\).