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Maxwell fields satisfying Huygens's principle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

H. P. Künzle
H. P. Künzle
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, King's College, London
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Abstract

It is shown that Huygens's principle holds for the solutions of Maxwell's equations for p-forms of all degrees in a gravitational plane wave space, while the solutions of the wave equation for 1, 2, and 3-forms, however, may have tails.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 64 , Issue 3 , July 1968 , pp. 779 - 785
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1968

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