Multipole Theory in Electromagnetism

Classical, quantum, and symmetry aspects, with applications

af Roger E. ( Raab

Multipole theory provides a powerful way of characterizing the electromagnetic behaviour of a medium (both microscopic and macroscopic). This book describes multipole theory, and its successes and failures in applications to transmission, scattering and reflection. It also presents a modified multipole theory which avoids the failures of the standard approach.