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An alternative formulation of the magnetostatic boundary value problem

Classical Physics 2013-11-05 v1

Abstract

We present an alternative formulation of the magnetostatic boundary value problem which is useful for calculating the magnetic field around a magnetic material placed in the vicinity of steady currents. The formulation differs from the standard approach in that a single-valued scalar potential, plus a vector field that depends on the given currents but not on the magnetic material, are used to obtain the total magnetic field instead of a magnetic vector potential. We illustrate the method by a few sample computations.

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@article{arxiv.1311.0315,
  title  = {An alternative formulation of the magnetostatic boundary value problem},
  author = {L Nasser and Z Chacko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.0315},
  year   = {2013}
}
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