Faber-Walsh field expansions for the planar conductivity problem with multiple inclusions

Abstract

We derive an explicit Faber-Walsh representation for the planar conductivity problem with finitely many disjoint inclusions of general shape and independently chosen positive conductivities. Walsh's lemniscatic map gives a conformal coordinate without smallness or wide-separation assumptions. The field expansion is expressed through Faber-Walsh polarization tensors, which we relate to the complex contracted generalized polarization tensors by a triangular change of basis. For analytic interfaces, we prove conformal continuation and absolute and uniform convergence of the Walsh-Grunsky series near the boundary to obtain explicit factorizations of the Neumann-Poincaré operator and the Faber-Walsh polarization tensors. These factorizations separate canonical interaction, which can remain nonzero even when all Grunsky coefficients vanish, from conformal deformation, while retaining the componentwise conductivity dependence in a coupled resolvent. For harmonic polynomial incident fields, we prove geometric convergence of outgoing truncations with exact coefficients on compact subsets of fixed exterior branch domains. Numerical comparisons with independent boundary-integral solutions illustrate the representation for heterogeneous, asymmetric, and nearly touching configurations.