Debye Sources, Beltrami Fields, and a Complex Structure on Maxwell Fields

作者:Epstein Charles L*; Greengard Leslie; O'Neil Michael
来源:Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, 2015, 68(12): 2237-2280.
DOI:10.1002/cpa.21560

摘要

The Debye source representation for solutions to the time-harmonic Maxwell equations is extended to bounded domains with finitely many smooth boundary components. A strong uniqueness result is proved for this representation. Natural complex structures are identified on the vector spaces of time-harmonic Maxwell fields. It is shown that these complex structures are uniformized by the Debye source representation, that is, represented by a fixed linear map on a fixed vector space, independent of the frequency. This complex structure relates time-harmonic Maxwell fields to constant-k Beltrami fields, i.e., solutions of the equation delta xE=kE. A family of self-adjoint boundary conditions are defined for the Beltrami operator. This leads to a proof of the existence of zero-flux, constant-k, force-free Beltrami fields for any bounded region in (3), as well as a constructive method to find them. The family of self-adjoint boundary value problems defines a new spectral invariant for bounded domains in (3).

  • 出版日期2015-12