On the hyperbolicity of Maxwell's equations with a local constitutive law

DOI10.1063/1.3579133MaRDI QIDQ5263570zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Volker Perlick

Publication date 17 July 2015

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.2536

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics (78A60) Maxwell equations (35Q61) Foundations in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A02) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50)

Abstract: Maxwell's equations are considered in metric-free form, with a local but otherwise arbitrary constitutive law. After splitting Maxwell's equations into evolution equations and constraints, we derive the characteristic equation and we discuss its properties in detail. We present several results that are relevant for the question of whether the evolution equations are hyperbolic, strongly hyperbolic or symmmetric hyperbolic. In particular, we give a convenient characterisation of all constitutive laws for which the evolution equations are symmetric hyperbolic. The latter property is sufficient, but not necessary, for well-posedness of the initial-value problem. By way of example, we illustrate our results with the constitutive laws of biisotropic media and of Born-Infeld theory.

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