A rigorous framework for the Landau and Lifshitz approach to Thomson electrostatics

DOI10.7546/jgsp-41-2016-69-75zbMath1359.35187MaRDI QIDQ508136

Yong-Cai Geng, Sumit K. Garg

Publication date: 9 February 2017

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Symmetry in Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/b0b691ed129b303815bc98ccb56d3b14c4164cda

zbMATH Keywords

variational calculus; boundary value problems; electrostatics; mathematical physics; Poisson and Laplace equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35Q60: PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory

35J50: Variational methods for elliptic systems

35J05: Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation

78A30: Electro- and magnetostatics