Reference on electrodynamics with tempered distributions

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Back in my undergrad I had a course on classical electrodynamics where the fields had values in the space of tempered distributions. In this way one could correctly treat self-interaction and effectively solve the differential equations involved in the distribution sense.

Unfortunately the few notes that I have are in Italian, and I am looking for some resources in English, but don't seem to find anything, could someone point me in the right direction?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 22 '14 at 06:53

There is an excellent paper of 15 pages that contains all the electromagnetism distributional approach fundamentals from Skinner and Weil. Its title is "An introduction to generalized functions and their application to static electromagnetism point dipoles, including hyperfine interactions". Let me know if this is useful for you.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 30 '14 at 21:16

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I found a compact version of the course notes, re-written in english by the same professor who gave the original lectures. You can find them at this link.

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Reference on electrodynamics with tempered distributions

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