Decomposition of vector fields by scalar potentials
- 1 January 1979
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 12 (1) , 145-150
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/12/1/027
Abstract
Details of a decomposition of an arbitrary vector field by scalar potentials are given. Known expansions for divergence-free fields, curl-free fields and transverse fields are shown to be special cases.Keywords
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