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DOI: 10.1163/156939389x00016

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Boundary integral formulations for homogeneous material bodies involving both electric and magnetic equivalent currents are unique solutions at all frequencies.

Abstract

There are many boundary integral formulations for the problem of electromagnetic scattering from and transmission into a homogeneous material body. The only formulations which give a unique solution at all frequencies are those which involve both electric and magnetic equivalent currents, and satisfy boundary conditions on both tangential E and tangential H. Formulations which involve only electric (or magnetic) equivalent currents, and those which involve boundary conditions on only tangential E (or tangential H) are singular at frequencies corresponding to the resonant frequencies of a resonator formed by a perfect conductor covering the surface of the body and filled with the material exterior to the body in the original problem.

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HARRINGTON, R. Boundary integral formulations for homogeneous material bodies. JOURNAL OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES AND APPLICATIONS, 1989, 3: 1–15.