Maxwell's multipole representation of traceless symmetric tensors and its application to functions of high-order tensors

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 459, Issue 2031, 2003, Pages 527-538

  Zou, W N ^a,b   Zheng, Q S ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANCHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

High order tensors; Maxwell's multipole representation; Multipoles; Representations for tensor functions; Sylvester's theorem

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICS;

EID: 1542357345     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2002.1053     Document Type: Article

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