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Transmission problems for Dirac's and Maxwell's equations with Lipschitz interfaces

Axelsson, Andreas, kax74@yahoo.se January 2002 (has links)
The aim of this thesis is to give a mathematical framework for scattering of electromagnetic waves by rough surfaces. We prove that the Maxwell transmission problem with a weakly Lipschitz interface,in finite energy norms, is well posed in Fredholm sense for real frequencies. Furthermore, we give precise conditions on the material constants ε, μ and σ and the frequency ω when this transmission problem is well posed. To solve the Maxwell transmission problem, we embed Maxwell’s equations in an elliptic Dirac equation. We develop a new boundary integral method to solve the Dirac transmission problem. This method uses a boundary integral operator, the rotation operator, which factorises the double layer potential operator. We prove spectral estimates for this rotation operator in finite energy norms using Hodge decompositions on weakly Lipschitz domains. To ensure that solutions to the Dirac transmission problem indeed solve Maxwell’s equations, we introduce an exterior/interior derivative operator acting in the trace space. By showing that this operator commutes with the two basic reflection operators, we are able to prove that the Maxwell transmission problem is well posed. We also prove well-posedness for a class of oblique Dirac transmission problems with a strongly Lipschitz interface, in the L_2 space on the interface. This is shown by employing the Rellich technique, which gives angular spectral estimates on the rotation operator.
Dirac operator
Maxwell's equations
transmission problem
Hodge decomposition
Cauchy integral
double layer potential
Lipschitz surface
singular integral
Carleson measure
boundary integral method
oblique boundary value problem
Fredholm theory
exterior algebra
Clifford analysis
Rellich inequality
Banach algebra
projection operator
Toeplitz operator
Calderón projection

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