Gunther Uhlmann

Anisotropic conductivities that cannot be detected by EIT

We construct anisotropic conductivities in dimension 3 that give rise to the same voltage and current measurements at the boundary of a body as a homogeneous isotropic conductivity. These conductivities are non-zero, but degenerate close to a surface inside the body.

Uniqueness in the inverse conductivity problem for nonsmooth conductivities in two dimensions

Let R 2 be a bounded domain with Lipschitz boundary and let : ! R be a function which is measurable and bounded away from zero and innnity. We consider the divergence form elliptic operator

Full-wave invisibility of active devices at all frequencies

There has recently been considerable interest in the possibility, both theoretical and practical, of invisibility (or “cloaking”) from observation by electromagnetic (EM) waves. Here, we prove invisibility with respect to solutions of the Helmholtz and Maxwell’s equations, for several constructions of cloaking devices. The basic idea, as in the papers [GLU2, GLU3, Le, PSS1], is to use a singular transformation that pushes isotropic electromagnetic parameters forward into singular, anisotropic ones. We define the notion of finite energy solutions of the Helmholtz and Maxwell’s equations for such singular electromagnetic parameters, and study the behavior of the solutions on the entire domain, including the cloaked region and its boundary. We show that, neglecting dispersion, the construction of [GLU3, PSS1] cloaks passive objects, i.e., those without internal currents, at all frequencies k. Due to the singularity of the metric, one needs to work with weak solutions. Analyzing the behavior of such solutions inside the cloaked region, we show that, depending on the chosen construction, there appear new “hidden” boundary conditions at the surface separating the cloaked and uncloaked regions. We also consider the effect on invisibility of active devices inside the cloaked region, interpreted as collections of sources and sinks or internal currents. When these conditions are overdetermined, as happens for Maxwell’s equations, generic internal currents prevent the existence of finite energy solutions and invisibility is compromised.We give two basic constructions for cloaking a region D contained in a domain

Electromagnetic Wormholes and Virtual Magnetic Monopoles from Metamaterials

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-dimensional Borg-Levinson theorem

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