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On two-centred expansions in cylindrical polar co-ordinates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

R. Shail
R. Shail
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Department of Applied Mathematics. University of Liverpool.
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In a recent paper (Shail [1]) the present author considered the problem of finding a two-centred expansion of the retarded Helmholtz Green's function This work formed an extension to that of Carlson and Rushbrooke [2] (also Buehler and Hirschfelder [3]) on the Coulomb Green's function and arose out of considerations of the interaction energy of two charge distributions taking account of electromagnetic retardation. The two-centred expansion obtained in [1] took the form of a double Taylor series, each term being interpreted as a Maxwell multipole—multipole interaction energy between two “charge” distributions coupled through a retarded scalar field. The first few terms in the expansion were also given in spherical polar coordinates.

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Mathematika , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , June 1961 , pp. 69 - 78
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Copyright © University College London 1961

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