The method of hypersingular integral equations in the problem of electromagnetic wave diffraction by a dielectric body with a partial perfectly conducting coating

A problem of scattering of a monochromatic electromagnetic wave by a homogeneous dielectric body is considered. A part of the boundary of the body is a perfectly conducting thin surface. The problem is reduced to a system of the boundary integral equations containing integrals with strong singularity, the integrals are understood in terms of Hadamard final part. A numerical solution scheme is constructed on the base of approximate solution of these equations using the methods of piecewise-constant approximations and collocation. The constructed numerical scheme is tested on a model example.

Acceleration Kernel

The phenomenon of spin-rotation coupling provides the key to the determination of the kernel. Imagine an observer rotating in the positive sense about the direction of propagation of an incident plane monochromatic electromagnetic wave of positive helicity. Using the locality postulate, the field as measured by the rotating observer can be determined. If the observer rotates with the same frequency as the wave, the measured radiation field loses its temporal dependence. By a mere rotation, observers could in principle stay at rest with respect to an incident positive-helicity wave. To avoid this possibility, we assume that a basic radiation field cannot stand completely still with respect to an accelerated observer. This basic principle eventually leads to the determination of the kernel and a nonlocal theory of accelerated systems that is in better agreement with quantum mechanics than the standard theory based on the hypothesis of locality.