STABILITY RESULTS FOR THE TIME-HARMONIC MAXWELL EQUATIONS WITH IMPEDANCE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS

We consider the time-harmonic Maxwell equations with constant coefficients in a bounded, uniformly star-shaped polyhedron. We prove wavenumber-explicit norm bounds for weak solutions. This result is pivotal for convergence proofs in numerical analysis and may be a tool in the analysis of electromagnetic boundary integral operators.

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