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Basang Tsering-Xiao

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Regularity of solutions to time-harmonic Maxwell's system with various lower than Lipschitz coefficients

In this paper, we study the regularity of the solutions of Maxwell's equations in a bounded domain. We consider several different types of low regularity assumptions to the coefficients which are all less than Lipschitz. We first develop a new approach by giving $\mathcal{H}^1$ estimate when the coefficients are $\mathcal{L}^{\infty}$ bounded; and then we derive $\mathcal{W}^{1,p}$ estimates for every $p > 2$ when one of the leading coefficients is simply continuous; Finally, we extend the result to $\mathcal{C}^{1,α}$ almost everywhere for the solution of the homogeneous Maxwell's equations when the coefficients are $\mathcal{W}^{1,p}, \, p>3$ and close to the identity matrix in the sense of $\mathcal{L}^{\infty}$ norm. The last two estimates are new, and the techniques and methods developed here can also be applied to other problems with similar difficulties.

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On one dimensional inverse problems arising from polarimetric measurements of nematic liquid crystals

We revisit the problem of determining dielectric parameters in layered nematic liquid crystals from polarimetric measurements originally introduced by Lionheart & Newton. After a detailed analysis of the model, of the scales involved, and of natural obstacles to the reconstruction of more than one dielectric parameters, we produce two simple one-dimensional inverse problems which can be studied without any expertise in liquid crystals. We then confirm that very little can be recovered about the internal configuration of smooth dielectric parameters from these measurements, and give a uniqueness result for one of the two problem, when the unknown parameter satisfies a monotonicity property. In that case, the available data can be expressed in terms of Laplace and Hankel transforms.

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