On the nonstationary Maxwell system in domains with edges (Q4675540)

This paper deals with the behaviour of solutions of the nonstationary Maxwell system near singularities of the boundary. The system is endowed with boundary conditions corresponding to the case of ideal conductive boundary. As models of the boundary, the author studies a simply connected cone in \(\mathbb R^3\), the wedge \({\mathcal D}=K\times \mathbb R^1\), \(K\) being a plane cone, a bounded domain in \(\mathbb R^3\) with a conical point etc. Following the papers [\textit{M. Sh. Birman} and \textit{M. Z. Solomyak}, Russ Math. Surv. 42, No. 6, 75--96 (1987); translation from Usp. Mat. Nauk 42, No. 6, 61--76 (1987; Zbl 0653.35075)] and [\textit{I. S. Gudovich, S. G. Krein}, and \textit{I. M. Kulikov}, Sov. Phys., Dokl. 17, 1053--1055 (1972); translation from Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR 207, 321--324 (1972; Zbl 0277.35034)] the author investigates at first the so called augmented system (elliptic) equipped with appropriate boundary conditions. To simplify this review we shall mention only that in the wedge type domain \(\mathcal D\) it is proved that the augmented Maxwell system admits a unique solution \(V\) in \(L_2\) space with weight \(e^{-\gamma t}\), \(\gamma>0\) and it is written explicitly the main term of the asymptotic expansion of \(V\) in a neighbourhood of \(\mathcal D\). The possibility of coming back to the initial nonaugmented Maxwell system is discussed in \S 2.8. In particular, in a bounded domain with a conical point the solution of the augmented system satisfies the usual Maxwell system.