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Under consideration is the stationary system of equations of electrodynamics relating to a nonmagnetic nonconducting medium. We study the problem of recovering the permittivity coefficient ε from given vectors of electric or magnetic intensities of the electromagnetic field. It is assumed that the field is generated by a point impulsive dipole located at some point y. It is also assumed that the permittivity differs from a given constant ε0 only inside some compact domain Ω ⊂ R3 with smooth boundary S. To recover ε inside Ω, we use the information on a solution to the corresponding direct problem for the system of equations of electrodynamics on the whole boundary of Ω for all frequencies from some fixed frequency ω 0 on and for all y ∈ S. The asymptotics of a solution to the direct problem for large frequencies is studied and it is demonstrated that this information allows us to reduce the initial problem to the well-known inverse kinematic problem of recovering the refraction index inside Ω with given travel times of electromagnetic waves between two arbitrary points on the boundary of Ω. This allows us to state uniqueness theorem for solutions to the problem in question and opens up a way of its constructive solution.
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Novosibirsk. Translated from Sibirskiĭ Matematicheskiĭ Zhurnal, Vol. 58, No. 4, pp. 916–924, July–August, 2017
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Romanov, V.G. The problem of recovering the permittivity coefficient from the modulus of the scattered electromagnetic field. Sib Math J 58, 711–717 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0037446617040176
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