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Maxwell's equations form the cornerstone of electromagnetic theory, offering a complete description of how electric and magnetic fields interact with matter. In combination with state‐of‐the‐art ...

The physical nature of light is an intriguing scientific mystery as it behaves like a wave in free space and as a particle when it interacts with matter. The theoretical work on light as an ...

Quarterly of Applied Mathematics, Vol. 63, No. 2 (June 2005), pp. 343-367 (25 pages) We study the Born-Infeld system of conservation laws, which is the most famous model for non-linear Maxwell's ...