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Convergence of electromagnetic field components across discontinuous premittivity profiles
1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alabama in Huntsville, 35899, USA.
Abstract:
We provide further insight into why the inverse rule [J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13, 1870 (1996)] for multiplying two finite Fourier series of two pairwise discontinuous functions yields correct results at the point of discontinuity.
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