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We will provide detailed arguments showing that the set of Maxwell equations, and the corresponding wave equations, do not properly describe the evolution of electromagnetic wave-fronts. We propose a nonlinear corrected version that is…

General Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 D. Funaro

The axiomatic structure of the electromagnetic theory is outlined. We will base classical electrodynamics on (1) electric charge conservation, (2) the Lorentz force, (3) magnetic flux conservation, and (4) on the Maxwell-Lorentz spacetime…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Friedrich W. Hehl , Yuri N. Obukhov

We present an integral formulation of observer-dependent Maxwell's equations in curved spacetime and give a classical interpretation of them.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Germani , D. Bini , R. T. Jantzen

In the first sections of this article, we discuss two variations on Maxwell's equations that have been introduced in earlier work--a class of nonlinear Maxwell theories with well-defined Galilean limits (and correspondingly generalized…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Giorgio A. Ascoli , Gerald A. Goldin

In this paper, we present an accurate numerical method for the time-harmonic Maxwell's equations for bi-periodic multilayered media with quasi-periodic incident waves using the Method of Fundamental Solutions in conjunction with a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Jared Weed , Bowei Wu , Jingfang Huang , Min Hyung Cho

On transformation to the Fourier space $({\bf k}, \omega)$, the partial differential Maxwell equations simplify to algebraic equations, and the Helmholtz theorem of vector calculus reduces to vector algebraic projections. Maxwell equations…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Chun Wa Wong

We discuss a manifestly covariant formulation of ideal relativistic magnetohydrodynamics, which has been recently used in astrophysical and heavy-ion contexts, and compare it to other similar frameworks. We show that the covariant equations…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Wojciech Florkowski , Avdhesh Kumar , Radoslaw Ryblewski

We consider a complex covariant form of the macroscopic Maxwell equations, in a moving medium or at rest, following the original ideas of Minkowski. A compact, Lorentz invariant, derivation of the energy-momentum tensor and the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-05-24 Sergey I. Kryuchkov , Nathan A. Lanfear , Sergei K. Suslov

In this paper, we develop a new integral representation for the solution of the time harmonic Maxwell equations in media with piecewise constant dielectric permittivity and magnetic permeability in R^3. This representation leads to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-05-18 Charles L. Epstein , Leslie Greengard , Michael O'Neil

This paper presents a brief review of the newly developed \emph{Extended Electrodynamics}. The relativistic and non-relativistic approaches to the extension of Maxwell equations are considered briefly, and the further study is carried out…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Stoil Donev , Maria Tashkova

New Lagrangians, depending on the field strengths and the electric and magnetic sources are found, which lead to the Maxwell equations. One new feature is that the equations of motion are obtained by varying the Lagrangian with respect to…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Gersten

A waveguide coincides with a three-dimensional domain G having finitely many cylindrical outlets to infinity; the boundary of G is smooth. In G, we consider the stationary Maxwell system with real spectral parameter k and identity matrices…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-06-04 B. A. Plamenevskii , A. S. Poretckii

We consider an Abelian Gauge Theory in R4 equipped with the Minkowski metric. This theory leads to a system of equations, the Klein-Gordon- Maxwell equations, which provide models for the interaction between the electromagnetic field and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-03-20 Vieri Benci , Donato Fortunato

Teaching magnetism is one of the most challenging topics at undergraduate level in programmes with scientific background. A basic course includes the description of the magnetic interaction along with empirical results such as the…

Physics Education · Physics 2024-02-16 Jorge Enrique García-Farieta , Alejandro Hurtado

A new representation for solutions of Maxwell's equations is derived. Instead of being expanded in plane waves, the solutions are given as linear superpositions of spherical wavelets dynamically adapted to the Maxwell field and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Gerald Kaiser

We consider the problem of homogenizing the Maxwell equations for periodic composites. The analysis is based on Bloch-Floquet theory. We calculate explicitly the reflection coefficient for a half-space, and derive and implement a…

Optics · Physics 2015-03-17 Vadim A. Markel , John C. Schotland

An analysis of the concept of orientation used in electrodynamics is presented. At least two different versions are encountered in the literature. Both are clearly identified and comparisons are made.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Giuseppe Marmo , Emanuele Parasecoli , Wlodzimierz M. Tulczyjew

Recent work on the quantization of Maxwell theory has used a non-covariant class of gauge-averaging functionals which include explicitly the effects of the extrinsic-curvature tensor of the boundary, or covariant gauges which, unlike the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Giampiero Esposito

We present a mimetic finite-difference approach for solving Maxwell's equations in one and two spatial dimensions. After introducing the governing equations and the classical Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method, we describe mimetic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Johnny Corbino

We extend the duality symmetry between the electric and the magnetic fields to the case in which an additional axion-like term is present, and we derive the set of Maxwell's equations that preserves this symmetry. This new set of equations…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-06-14 Luca Visinelli