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Declared ideal infinite wire and cylindrical current sheet: explicit fields and their distributional equations
Explicit verification of the two declared ideal noncompact source models, the infinite straight wire and the infinite cylindrical current sheet (ideal solenoid). The models carry declared symmetry and decay data; they are not finite-energy localised-current theorems, nothing is claimed about self-energy, inductance or self-forces, and no measurement, apparatus or statistical inference is involved.
Example
Assume Countable Choice (), with the exact meaning of The Axiom of Countable Choice ().
(a) [Ideal infinite straight wire]. Let , , let be the declared ideal line current of amplitude along (The steady-current (magnetostatic) regime, the compact smooth current class and the declared ideal noncompact models(c2)), and define, on , Then is locally integrable on and of class off ; and pointwise off ; is invariant under translations along and rotations about it, and its transverse far-zone supremum tends to as ; for every and , the circulation of along , , traversed once with increasing , is (Scalar line integrals with respect to arc length and vector-field line integrals); and , hold in the distributional sense of The steady-current (magnetostatic) regime, the compact smooth current class and the declared ideal noncompact models(c4). Hence is an admitted field of the declared wire model; the transverse decay excludes an added homogeneous longitudinal field, and no further selection, uniqueness or energy claim is made.
(b) [Ideal infinite cylindrical sheet]. Let , , , let be the declared ideal sheet current of amplitude along (The steady-current (magnetostatic) regime, the compact smooth current class and the declared ideal noncompact models(c3)), and define for and for . Then is locally integrable on and of class off ; and pointwise off ; has the declared symmetry (translations along and rotations about the axis) and its transverse far-zone supremum is ; the one-sided jump across , with from the interior to the exterior and , is and , the stationary tangential-sheet jump for this noncompact cylinder, established by the test-localized The piecewise constant cylinder field : distributional curl on the cylinder for the current density (computed directly as ); and , hold in the distributional sense of The steady-current (magnetostatic) regime, the compact smooth current class and the declared ideal noncompact models(c4). Hence is an admitted field of the declared solenoid model.
(c) [Scope]. Both models are declared noncompact idealisations: they are not finite-energy localized-current theorems; nothing is asserted about self-energy, inductance, self-force, the fields on the sources, or the approximation of any physical apparatus; and the fields are selected within the declared symmetry and decay class, not shown to be the only solutions of the magnetostatic equations off the sources without that class. The external force between two such wires is treated in Force per unit length between two declared ideal parallel wires under the adopted thin-wire coupling.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Assume ; let the ideal line current and the ideal sheet current be the declared objects of The steady-current (magnetostatic) regime, the compact smooth current class and the declared ideal noncompact models(c2) and (c3); let be the fields defined in (a) and (b) of the Example.
The field on is locally integrable, is off with there, has circulation along each positively oriented circle defined in (a), and satisfies with and for all scalar and vector tests (The azimuthal line field : local integrability and distributional curl on the axis).
The piecewise constant field extended by zero outside the cylinder satisfies and for all tests, with the one-sided values satisfying , and (The piecewise constant cylinder field : distributional curl on the cylinder).
The declared line current acts as and the declared sheet current as (The steady-current (magnetostatic) regime, the compact smooth current class and the declared ideal noncompact models(c2)-(c3)), and the admissibility predicate (c4) requires local integrability, regularity and vanishing divergence and curl off the source, the two global distributional identities, the declared symmetry and the stated decay (The steady-current (magnetostatic) regime, the compact smooth current class and the declared ideal noncompact models).
The cross product and the identities , hold (The cross product in ); divergence and curl are the coordinate expressions of Divergence and curl of a vector field; the circulation is the vector line integral of Scalar line integrals with respect to arc length and vector-field line integrals; surface integrals over the cylinder are those of Surface integration on compact C1 hypersurfaces, with the compact-face area computed through the Riemann integral of The Riemann integral of a bounded function over a bounded Jordan measurable set and A continuous real function on a compact Jordan measurable set is Riemann integrable over that set.
The physical reading of these declared ideal models is the separate adopted assumption Physical adoption of the declared ideal magnetostatic loop, line and cylindrical-sheet models, which asserts no existence, uniqueness, finite self-energy, force, self-force or apparatus accuracy (Physical adoption of the declared ideal magnetostatic loop, line and cylindrical-sheet models).
is the countable-choice principle assumed here and inherited by the cited measure, surface, regular-distribution and Newtonian interfaces (The Axiom of Countable Choice ()).
Verification
The field of (a) is with ; by [F1] it is locally integrable on and off , with pointwise off , and all these properties are stable under multiplication by the constant .
The field of (b) is with the piecewise constant cylinder field: it is bounded, hence locally integrable, constantly for and for , so it is off with there; it is invariant under translations along and rotations about the third axis, and its supremum on any compact set of cross-sectional parameters is for every , hence its transverse far-zone supremum is .
For the wire, and for all tests by [F1] and [F3]; moreover depends only on through the scalar factor multiplying , so it is invariant under translations along and rotations about it, and its transverse far-zone supremum is . The circulation of along the increasing- traversal of (a) is times the circulation of , that is , by [F1] and the linearity of the line integral [F4].
For the sheet, and for all tests by [F2] and [F3]. The one-sided values across are and in the direction from the interior to the exterior, so and, by [F4], and ; this is the jump displayed in (b), computed directly from the one-sided values of the declared field.
For the wire, every clause of the admissibility predicate F3 holds: local integrability and off-source regularity from step 1.1, the two pointwise vanishing identities off from step 1.1, the two distributional identities and the line-measure value from step 2.1, the translation and rotation symmetry from step 2.1, and the transverse decay from step 2.1. Hence the field of (a) is admitted for the declared wire model; the decay requirement is what rules out adding a constant longitudinal field, and nothing else is claimed.
For the sheet, every clause of F3 holds: local integrability, off-source regularity, the two pointwise vanishing identities and the symmetry and the vanishing transverse far-zone supremum from step 1.2, and the two distributional identities from step 2.2, with the one-sided jump of step 2.2 as the interface content. Hence the field of (b) is admitted for the declared solenoid model.
Steps 3.1 and 3.2 prove that both explicit fields are admitted under the predicate (c4) of [F3]; the physical reading of the declared models is the separate adopted assumption [F5], which adds no existence, uniqueness, self-energy, inductance, force or apparatus claim. Both models are declared noncompact idealisations: no finite-energy or localized-current conclusion is drawn, nothing is asserted on the sources, and the fields are selected within the declared symmetry and decay class rather than shown to be the only solutions off the sources. Countable Choice is inherited only through the cited measure, surface, regular-distribution and Newtonian interfaces [F6]; no stronger choice principle occurs.
Source notes
Griffiths, Example 5.5 and Examples 5.7 and 5.9, printed pp. 215-217 and 226-228, evaluates the wire field and the infinite-solenoid field inside and zero outside; Tong, Sections 3.1.1-3.1.2, printed pp. 42-46, gives the wire field, the surface-current discontinuity (3.5)-(3.6) and the solenoid field (3.7); Chew, Lecture 4 Section 4.3.3-4.3.4, printed pp. 46-48, gives the current-sheet jump and the normal-field continuity. The verification above is the exact ideal-model check against the framework's admissibility predicate; no measurement, apparatus or uncertainty is involved, and the idealizations are not claimed to describe any real conductor or coil.
Depends on
The steady-current (magnetostatic) regime, the compact smooth current class and the declared ideal noncompact models
The azimuthal line field : local integrability and distributional curl on the axis
The piecewise constant cylinder field : distributional curl on the cylinder
The cross product in
Divergence and curl of a vector field
The Riemann integral of a bounded function over a bounded Jordan measurable set
Scalar line integrals with respect to arc length and vector-field line integrals
Surface integration on compact C1 hypersurfaces
A continuous real function on a compact Jordan measurable set is Riemann integrable over that set
The Axiom of Countable Choice ()
Physical adoption of the declared ideal magnetostatic loop, line and cylindrical-sheet models
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Sources
- David J. Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics, 3rd edition (Prentice Hall 1999, 596 pp.; full scanned text)
- David Tong, Electromagnetism, University of Cambridge Part II Mathematical Tripos lecture notes (2026 printing, 236 pp.)
- W. C. Chew, Lectures on Electromagnetic Field Theory, Purdue University (Fall 2020, 497 pp.)