A variational interpretation of the Biot–Savart operator and the helicity of a bounded domain

DOI10.1063/1.5024197zbMath1412.78004OpenAlexW2916071777MaRDI QIDQ4628731

Alberto Valli

Publication date: 15 March 2019

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5024197

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Linear operators defined by compactness properties (47B07) Integral operators (45P05) Integral representations, integral operators, integral equations methods in higher dimensions (31B10) Electro- and magnetostatics (78A30)

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