Wave splitting of Maxwell's equations with anisotropic heterogeneous constitutive relations
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.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- September 2008
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.0809.0789
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0809.0789
- Bibcode:
- 2008arXiv0809.0789J
- Keywords:
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- Mathematical Physics;
- 35P25;
- 78A25;
- 78A40;
- 78A46;
- 35Q60;
- 46N20;
- 47N20
- E-Print:
- 45 pages, 2 figures