Instability of dielectrics and conductors in electrostatic fields

DOI10.1007/S00205-016-1073-0MaRDI QIDQ522187zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jeffrey Rauch, Grégoire Allaire

Publication date 13 April 2017

Published in Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00205-016-1073-0

zbMATH Keywords

Earnshaw's theoremMaxwell's treatise on electromagnetism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electro- and magnetostatics (78A30) PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) History of optics and electromagnetic theory (78-03)

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