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A study of constraints on the constitutive relationships of electro magnetic medium based on generally acknowledged truths

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The study of constraints on the constitutive relationships of electromagnetic media is of great importance in the aspects of the medium characteristics analysis, the new article material synthesis and the medium parameters reconstruction, etc. According to the fact that the constitutive relationships should not conflict with the general physical laws, the constraints that the constitutive relationships of electromagnetic medium must satisfy have been summarized in this paper. These constrains include determinacy principle, objectivity principle, causality principle and permission principle. And the parameter constraints of the arbitrary linear homogenous time-invariant medium are obtained following the minimum energy consumption principle. This work provides a new way of ascertaining the constitutive relationships of the electromagnetic medium.

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  1. School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Soochow University, 215021, Suzhou, China

    Guo Huiping & Liu Xueguan

  2. National Electromagnetic Scattering Laboratory, 100854, Beijing, China

    Liu Xueguan, Yin Hongcheng, Chao Zengming & Huang Peikang

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Guo, H., Liu, X., Yin, H. et al. A study of constraints on the constitutive relationships of electro magnetic medium based on generally acknowledged truths. Sci China Ser G: Phy & Ast 48, 541–548 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1360/142005-146

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