1 Marzo, 2017 14:00 oclock

Seminario Matematico e Fisico di Milano

The nonlinear theory of electromagnetism of Born and Infeld

Denis Bonheure, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Sala Consiglio, 7 piano, Dipartimento di Matematica, Via Bonardi 9, Milano

In this talk, I will discuss some questions related to the nonlinear theory of electromagnetism formulated by Born and Infeld in 1934. I will focus on the set of PDEs arising from this theory and mainly on the static regime.

I will discuss also some links between this theory and the curvature operators in the Euclidean and in the Lorentz-Minkowski space. Finally I will address the solvability of the electrostatic Born-Infeld equation with sources and some related questions.


This seminar is organized within the PRIN 2012 Research project «Partial Differential Equations and Related Analytic-Geometric Inequalities» Grant Registration number 2012TC7588_003, funded by MIUR - Project local coordinator Prof. Filippo Gazzola