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Second-order interactions in a medium containing perfect-conducting hyperspherical inclusions

A Alexopoulos

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We consider the interaction between two hyperspherical inclusions surrounded by a medium experiencing an E-field in the perfect-conducting limit. By the use of d-dimensional dipole moments we show that the dielectric function of the medium can be calculated to any order n. In particular, κ(d)n, the coefficient of O(c2) in the series expansion for the dielectric function is determined in terms of a dimensional dependence, which even though it is mathematically complex, proves to be superior in convergence to other methods. We calculate the potential difference between the two hyperspheres for various limits, including the all important closely-packed limit. Using the theory of continued fractions, we investigate the convergence of the interaction terms between the two inclusions and obtain results that reduce the enormous number of calculations that need to be computed as n. The latter may be useful in the pursuit of a theory that resums the complicated interaction terms present in the two-body + medium problem with a view towards an improved effective medium theory.


PACS

77.22.Ch Permittivity (dielectric function)

41.20.Cv Electrostatics; Poisson and Laplace equations, boundary-value problems

41.20.Gz Magnetostatics; magnetic shielding, magnetic induction, boundary-value problems

MSC

78A25 Electromagnetic theory, general

78A30 Electro- and magnetostatics

Subjects

Accelerators, beams and electromagnetism

Condensed matter: electrical, magnetic and optical

Dates

Issue 49 (10 December 2004)

Received 23 August 2004, in final form 19 October 2004

Published 24 November 2004



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