Quantitative uniqueness estimate for the Maxwell system with Lipschitz anisotropic media

Nguyen, Tu; Wang, Jenn-Nan

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-2011-11137-7

Quantitative uniqueness estimate for the Maxwell system with Lipschitz anisotropic media
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Abstract:

We study quantitative uniqueness estimates for the time harmonic Maxwell system with Lipschitz anisotropic media. Our main results are a three-balls inequality and a minimal vanishing rate at a point of any nontrivial solution. The proof relies on a Carleman estimate with a divergence term.

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