General form of the full electromagnetic Green function in materials physics

•We present the general form of the full electromagnetic Green function.•The most general form depends on seven adjustable parameter functions.•These parameter functions can be derived from the free Green function.•We derive a Cartesian version of the famous Dyson equation. In this article, we prese...

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Published in:Chinese journal of physics (Taipei) 2019-02, Vol.57, p.451-464
Main Authors: Schober, G.A.H., Starke, R.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Electrodynamics in media
Green function
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Summary:•We present the general form of the full electromagnetic Green function.•The most general form depends on seven adjustable parameter functions.•These parameter functions can be derived from the free Green function.•We derive a Cartesian version of the famous Dyson equation. In this article, we present the general form of the full electromagnetic Green function which is suitable for the application in bulk materials physics. In particular, we show how the seven adjustable parameter functions of the free Green function translate into seven corresponding parameter functions of the full Green function. Furthermore, for both the fundamental response tensor and the electromagnetic Green function, we discuss the reduction of the Dyson equation on the four-dimensional Minkowski space to an equivalent, three-dimensional Cartesian Dyson equation.
ISSN:0577-9073
DOI:10.1016/j.cjph.2018.10.018