Gauge freedom in magnetostatics and the effect on helicity in toroidal volumes

Magnetostatics defines a class of boundary value problems in which the topology of the domain plays a subtle role. For example, representability of a divergence-free field as the curl of a vector potential comes about because of homological considerations. With this in mind, we study gauge freedom i...

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