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After discussing some subtle issues concerning the computation of deflection angle, a general but simple expression of bending angle of light rays in weak deflection limit has been presented for a general static and spherically symmetric…

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We consider a plane wave, a radiation solution, and the sum of these solutions (total solution) for the Helmholtz equation in an exterior region in $\mathbb{R}^d,$ $d\geq 2$. In this region, we consider a hyperplane $X$ with sufficiently…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Roman Novikov , Vladimir Sivkin

While wave-packet solutions for relativistic wave equations are oftentimes thought to be approximate (paraxial), we demonstrate that there is a family of such solutions, which are exact, by employing a null-plane (light-cone) variables…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-02-05 Dmitry V. Karlovets

A boundary integral formulation for the solution of the Helmholtz equation is developed in which all traditional singular behaviour in the boundary integrals is removed analytically. The numerical precision of this approach is illustrated…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Q. Sun , E. Klaseboer , B. C. Khoo , D. Y. C. Chan

The longitudinal charge density of an electron beam in its equilibrium state is given by the solution of the Ha\"issinski equation, which provides a stationary solution of the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation. The physical input is the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-08-06 Robert Warnock , Karl Bane

The generalized Maxwell equations are considered which include an additional gradient term. Such equations describe massless particles possessing spins one and zero. We find and investigate the matrix formulation of the first order of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 S. I. Kruglov

Multipole expansion of an incident radiation field - that is, representation of the fields as sums of vector spherical wavefunctions - is essential for theoretical light scattering methods such as the T-matrix method and generalised…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. A. Nieminen , H. Rubinsztein-Dunlop , N. R. Heckenberg

An ill-posed problem of synthesis of the Pierce electrodes for a cylindrical beam with a polygonal cross-section is considered. It is assumed that a beam of charged particles is extracted from a space-charge-limited planar diode and the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-12-09 Igor A. Kotelnikov

Exact solutions describing the Rayleigh-Bloch waves for the two-dimensional Helmholtz equation are constructed in the case when the refractive index is a sum of a constant and a small amplitude function which is periodic in one direction…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 A. Merzon , P. Zhevandrov , M. I. Romero Rodríguez , J. E. De la Paz Méndez

We analyze the paraxial beam transformation upon reflection and refraction at a plane boundary. In contrast to the usual approach dealing with the beam angular spectrum, we apply the continuity conditions to explicit spatial representations…

Optics · Physics 2013-05-30 Aleksandr Bekshaev

We consider the homogenization of parabolic equations with large spatially-dependent potentials modeled as Gaussian random fields. We derive the homogenized equations in the limit of vanishing correlation length of the random potential. We…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-09-08 Guillaume Bal

Expressions describing the vortex beams, which are generated in a process of Fresnel diffraction of a Gaussian beam, incident out of waist on a fork-shaped gratings of arbitrary integer charge p, and vortex spots in the case of Fraunhofer…

Optics · Physics 2008-06-26 Ljiljana Janicijevic , Suzana Topuzoski

We obtain exact solutions to the class of parabolic partial differential equations of arbitrary dimensionality and with arbitrary potentials. The solutions are presented in a compact-form: as explicit mathematical expressions consisting of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-08-29 Ivan Gonoskov

The general solution to the Complex Bateman equation is constructed. It is given in implicit form in terms of a functional relationship for the unknown function. The known solution of the usual Bateman equation is recovered as a special…

solv-int · Physics 2007-05-23 D. B. Fairlie , A. N. Leznov

Full generalization of Kasner metric for the case of $n+1$ dimensions and $m\le n+1$ essential variables is obtained. Any solution is defined by the corresponding constant matrix of Kasner parameters. This parameters form in euclidian space…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergey S. Kokarev

In a Lorentzian spacetime there exists a smooth regular line element field $(\bm{X},-\bm{X}) $ and a unit vector $ \bm{u} $ collinear with one of the pair of vectors in the line element field. An orthogonal decomposition of symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-12 Gary Nash

Recently found all the fundamental solutions of a multidimensional singular elliptic equation are expressed in terms of the well-known Lauricella hypergeometric function in many variables. In this paper, we find a unique solution of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-14 Tuhtasin Ergashev

We provide several diagrams for the graphical determination of certain elements of a Gaussian beam based on prior knowledge of other elements. For example, these diagrams allow us to determine the plane of the beam waist and the Rayleigh…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-27 Pierre Pellat-Finet

In linear optics, photons are scattered in a network through passive optical elements including beamsplitters and phase shifters, leading to many intriguing applications in physics, such as Mach-Zehnder interferometry, Hong-Ou-Mandel…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-02 Man-Hong Yung , Xun Gao , Joonsuk Huh

By means of the Helmholtz theorem on the decomposition of vector fields, the angular momentum of the classical electromagnetic field is decomposed, in a general and manifestly gauge invariant manner, into a spin component and an orbital…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. M. Stewart