Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: Time-harmonic Maxwell scattering by a perfectly conducting obstacle is governed by the electric field integral equation (EFIE), whose natural energy space is $\boldsymbol H^{-1/2}(\mathrm{div}_Γ,Γ)$. For countably parametrized surface deformations, both the operator and its energy space depend on the geometry. We establish operator-valued shape holomorphy of the EFIE operator on a fixed reference space and derive dimension-independent sparse approximation rates. The main analytical difficulty is a fractional mapping property absent from existing $L^2$-based operator-valued shape-holomorphy theory for weakly singular kernels: the Maxwell graph norm requires uniform holomorphy of the complex-deformed scalar single layer as an operator from $H^{-1/2}$ to $H^{1/2}$. We prove this one-order smoothing by realizing the Laplace principal part as the trace of a uniformly sectorial complex-coefficient divergence-form problem on a fixed real ambient domain. Combined with a surface contravariant Piola transformation, which identifies the geometry-dependent Maxwell trace spaces and cancels the surface Jacobians in the pulled-back EFIE exactly, this yields $(\mathbf b,p,\varepsilon)$-holomorphy of the EFIE operator family for $\ell^p$-summable shape deformations, $0
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Language: English
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7206156027