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This paper is concerned with the correspondence between the macroscopic electric displacementD and the analogous quantityD m of microscopic derivation. Instead of identifying these two fields one with the other, we will equate them, while the identification of the macroscopic polarization with that of microscopic derivation is retained. The result is a new field equation along with the Maxwell equations.
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Trimarco, C. How multipole electric moments enter into macroscopic Maxwell equations. Nuovo Cim B 109, 533–540 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02728394
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