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## Local wellposedness of quasilinear Maxwell equations with absorbing boundary conditions

 1 Department of Mathematics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany 2 Department of Mathematics, University of Bielefeld, Postfach 100131, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany

* Corresponding author: Roland Schnaubelt

Received  December 2018 Revised  March 2020 Published  June 2020

Fund Project: Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – Project-ID 258734477 – SFB 1173

In this article we provide a local wellposedness theory for quasilinear Maxwell equations with absorbing boundary conditions in ${\mathcal{H}}^m$ for $m \geq 3$. The Maxwell equations are equipped with instantaneous nonlinear material laws leading to a quasilinear symmetric hyperbolic first order system. We consider both linear and nonlinear absorbing boundary conditions. We show existence and uniqueness of a local solution, provide a blow-up criterion in the Lipschitz norm, and prove the continuous dependence on the data. In the case of nonlinear boundary conditions we need a smallness assumption on the tangential trace of the solution. The proof is based on detailed apriori estimates and the regularity theory for the corresponding linear problem which we also develop here.

Citation: Roland Schnaubelt, Martin Spitz. Local wellposedness of quasilinear Maxwell equations with absorbing boundary conditions. Evolution Equations & Control Theory, doi: 10.3934/eect.2020061
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