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We consider the problem of the existence of functionally invariant solutions to Maxwell’s system. The solutions found contain functional arbitrariness, which is used for determining the parameters of Maxwell’s system (the dielectric and magnetic constants).
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Original Russian Text © M.V. Neshchadim, 2017, published in Sibirskii Zhurnal Industrial’noi Matematiki, 2017, Vol. XX, No. 4, pp. 66–74.
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Neshchadim, M.V. Functionally invariant solutions to Maxwell’s system. J. Appl. Ind. Math. 11, 107–114 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1990478917010124
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