Some uniqueness results for stationary solutions to the Maxwell-Born-Infeld field equations and their physical consequences

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2011.09.052zbMATH Open1254.78028arXiv1107.2333OpenAlexW2100750546MaRDI QIDQ1927992FDOQ1927992

Authors: Michael K.-H. Kiessling 

Publication date: 2 January 2013

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Uniqueness results are established for time-independent finite-energy electromagnetic fields which solve the nonlinear Maxwell--Born--Infeld equations in boundary-free space under the condition that either the charge or current density vanishes. In addition, it is also shown that the simpler Maxwell--Born equations admit at most a unique stationary finite-energy electromagnetic field solution, without the above condition. In these theories of electromagnetism, the following physical consequences emerge: source-free field solitons moving at speeds less than the vacuum speed of light $c$ do not exits; any purely electrostatic (resp. magnetostatic) field is the unique stationary electromagnetic field for the same current-density-free (resp. charge-density-free) sources. Our results put to rest some interesting speculations in the recent physics literature.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.2333

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics (78A60) Soliton solutions (35C08) Uniqueness problems for PDEs: global uniqueness, local uniqueness, non-uniqueness (35A02) Maxwell equations (35Q61) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25)

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