Wave splitting of Maxwell's equations with anisotropic heterogeneous constitutive relations

DOI10.3934/IPI.2009.3.405MaRDI QIDQ2268308zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors B. L. G. Jonsson

Publication date 10 March 2010

Published in Inverse Problems and Imaging (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.0789

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic Riccati operator equationanisotropydirectional wave-field decompositionelectromagnetic system's matrixgeneralized eigenvalue problemgeneralized vertical wave numbersplitting matrixwave-splitting

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Maxwell equations (35Q61) Applications of functional analysis to differential and integral equations (46N20) Pseudodifferential operators (47G30) Applications of operator theory to differential and integral equations (47N20) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A40) Inverse problems (including inverse scattering) in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A46)

Abstract: The equations for the electromagnetic field in an anisotropic media are written in a form containing only the transverse field components relative to a half plane boundary. The operator corresponding to this formulation is the electromagnetic system's matrix. A constructive proof of the existence of directional wave-field decomposition with respect to the normal of the boundary is presented. In the process of defining the wave-field decomposition (wave-splitting), the resolvent set of the time-Laplace representation of the system's matrix is analyzed. This set is shown to contain a strip around the imaginary axis. We construct a splitting matrix as a Dunford-Taylor type integral over the resolvent of the unbounded operator defined by the electromagnetic system's matrix. The splitting matrix commutes with the system's matrix and the decomposition is obtained via a generalized eigenvalue-eigenvector procedure. The decomposition is expressed in terms of components of the splitting matrix. The constructive solution to the question on the existence of a decomposition also generates an impedance mapping solution to an algebraic Riccati operator equation. This solution is the electromagnetic generalization in an anisotropic media of a Dirichlet-to-Neumann map.

Review text

This is a very interesting article about the applications of Functional Analysis in the context of wave phenomena. In particular, it is devoted to the wave splitting technique of Maxwell's Equations in anisotropic media. The paper, as the author mentions, is an extension of the formalism previously used in linear anisotropic acoustics that results in a matrix of operators, and hence infinite dimensional. The author expects that the extension of the wave splitting technique to the anisotropic case provide both, a base for new applications of the method and the possibility to generate fast numerical codes. A clear formulation of the problem is given at section 2.3. The paper is excessively technical in some parts. Probably a format more extended like a review or a report would be better for the exposition of the ideas and mathematical details simultaneously. For example, the paper contains an appendix with a list of symbols used in the paper with more than 200 entries.

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