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Potentials on the hexagonal grid

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The aim of this paper is to give an explicit computation for the potential generated by a dipole on a hexagonal grid. Such a computation will be expressed as the Fourier transform of a distribution on the bidimensional torus\(\mathbb{T}^2 \).

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Melzi, C. Potentials on the hexagonal grid. Circuits Systems and Signal Process 16, 405–414 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01198058

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