Boundary Stabilization of Quasilinear Maxwell Equations

Abstract: We investigate an initial-boundary value problem for a quasilinear nonhomogeneous, anisotropic Maxwell system subject to an absorbing boundary condition of Silver & M\"uller type in a smooth, bounded, strictly star-shaped domain of $\mathbb{R}^{3}$. Imposing usual smallness assumptions in addition to standard regularity and compatibility conditions, a nonlinear stabilizability inequality is obtained by showing nonlinear dissipativity and observability-like estimates enhanced by an intricate regularity analysis. With the stabilizability inequality at hand, the classic nonlinear barrier method is employed to prove that small initial data admit unique classical solutions that exist globally and decay to zero at an exponential rate. Our approach is based on a recently established local well-posedness theory in a class of $\mathcal{H}^{3}$-valued functions.