Orthogonal decomposition and asymptotic behavior for nonlinear Maxwell's equations (Q2515134)

It is considered a time dependent nonlinear Maxwell's system, with electric conductivity \(\sigma(x, |\mathbf{E}|)\), on a smooth, bounded, and simply-connected domain. Standard boundary conditions are imposed. The conductivity \(\sigma(x, s)\) is supposed to be measurable in \((x, s)\), \(s\geq 0\), monotone increasing in \(s\) and, for some \(p\in [0,4]\), \(\sigma(x, s)s^2\geq \sigma_0 s^{p+2}\) and \(0\leq \sigma(x, s)\leq \sigma_1(1+s^p)\). It is shown that solutions of the initial value problem decay at time infinity as \(t^{-2/p}\) if \(p>0\), and exponentially fast if \(p=0\).