Computational & Applied Math Seminar

Abstract

The open problem on existence of Generalized Polarization Tensors (GPTs) vanishing structures was proposed in Ammari et. al. Commun. Math. Phys, 2013. We first investigate the existence and uniqueness of Generalized Polarization Tensors vanishing structures locally in both two and three dimension by fixed point theorem. Employing the Brouwer Degree Theory and the local uniqueness, we prove that for any radius configuration of N + 1 layers concentric disks (balls) and a fixed core conductivity, there exists at least one piecewise homogeneous conductivity distribution which achieves the N-GPTs vanishing. Furthermore, we establish a global uniqueness result for the case of proportional radius settings, and derive an interesting asymptotic configuration for structure with thin coatings. Finally, we present some numerical examples to validate our theoretical conclusions.