Instability of dielectrics and conductors in electrostatic fields

DOI10.1007/S00205-016-1073-0zbMATH Open1428.35551OpenAlexW2566434421MaRDI QIDQ522187FDOQ522187

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

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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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