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The two-equation interface admittance system: solution formulas and the normal-flux identity
Statement
Let with , and let satisfy the two linear equations
Then: (a) [Solution] If , then if then and the field ratios are undefined. Throughout (b)-(d), denote the displayed algebraic transfer coefficients and , which are defined independently of ; when they equal the field ratios of (a). (b) [Normal-flux identity] If is real (the incident side admittance), then and explicitly and . The second summand is nonnegative if and only if ; it is the normal-flux coefficient of a passive transmitted medium and may be negative for an active one, in which case and the identity carries no energy-conservation reading. (c) [Pure-imaginary admittance] If is real and is purely imaginary, then , and ; in particular and . (d) [Real-positive specialisation] If are real, then and are real and ; with , , this is , and for , , in agreement with The two-equation interface system at normal incidence. (e) [Scope] The lemma is pure algebra of ; the labels 'incident', 'reflected' and 'transmitted' and the interpretation of the second summand as a flux fraction belong to the consuming physical theorem, not to this lemma.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Complex numbers with and complex numbers satisfying and ; the transfer coefficients and .
Field arithmetic in : is a field, every element has the unique form with , addition and multiplication follow the coordinate formulas, for , and a product of nonzero field elements is nonzero (The complex numbers as , with the real embedding and imaginary unit , is a field, every element is uniquely , and every nonzero element has inverse ).
Conjugation and modulus: , , with exactly for , conjugation is an involutive real-field automorphism fixing every real number, and (Real and imaginary parts, complex conjugation, and modulus, Conjugation is an involutive real-field automorphism, , and modulus is definite, multiplicative, and subadditive).
Real order: the real numbers form an ordered field with positive cone (Ordered field): by trichotomy a positive real is nonzero, and by closure sums and products of positive reals are positive; the same axioms give that the product of two nonzero reals of equal sign is positive and of opposite signs is negative, and that division by the positive real preserves the sign of a quotient, since has the sign of when .
Squares in an ordered field: the square of a nonzero element is positive (Squares of nonzero elements are positive), and for one has if and only if (Squaring is monotone on the nonnegatives).
The normal-incidence interface lemma The two-equation interface system at normal incidence: for real , , and with satisfying and , one has , , and for , .
Proof
[Solution of the linear system] Substituting the first equation into the second gives , that is after expanding and collecting terms by the field arithmetic of [F1]. Since is invertible in the field by [F1], , and then , again by [F1].
[Consequences of the solution] If , dividing the two identities of step 1.1 by gives and . If , the identities of step 1.1 give and , so no field ratio exists; the algebraic expressions and remain defined because , and they agree with the field ratios whenever the latter exist. This proves (a) and the convention stated before (b).
[Modular expansions] For any , , and by [F2]; hence for real and arbitrary , , and subtraction gives . Moreover and : indeed and by [F2] applied to the quotients of step 2.1 give and because for real , and the denominator is nonzero since .
[The flux identity] Assume real. By [F2] and [F3], , so , and the identity of step 3.1 gives ; adding cancels the correction and yields , the displayed identity and explicit formulas of (b).
[Sign analysis] Still with real: since by step 4.1, the second summand has the sign of by [F3], so it is nonnegative if and only if . If , then , and since and , [F4] gives ; in that case the identity of step 4.1 has a negative transmitted term and carries no energy-conservation reading, while alone is consistent with an active transmitted model.
[Purely imaginary admittance] Assume real and with . Then by [F2], so by [F2] and step 3.1 gives ; the identity of step 4.1 then gives (multiplying the identity by and using ), while by [F2] and [F3]; hence because and because by the definiteness of the modulus in [F2]. This proves (c); no division by is performed, and the case is included with .
[Real-positive specialisation] Assume real. Then is real and is real and nonzero, so of step 2.1 are real by [F1], and step 4.1 gives because . Substituting with real, is invertible and by [F1], so and by cancellation of the nonzero factor ; moreover by [F1], so the balance is for and . These are exactly the solution formulas and the balance of [F5], so clause (d) is in agreement with The two-equation interface system at normal incidence.
[Scope] Clause (e) holds: the entire argument is algebra in the field together with the ordered-field arithmetic of the real scalars ; no wave model, no labelling of the amplitudes and no interpretation of the second summand is used, and no choice principle occurs, all divisions being by explicitly nonzero field elements.
Depends on
The complex numbers as , with the real embedding and imaginary unit
is a field, every element is uniquely , and every nonzero element has inverse
Real and imaginary parts, complex conjugation, and modulus
Conjugation is an involutive real-field automorphism, , and modulus is definite, multiplicative, and subadditive
The two-equation interface system at normal incidence
Ordered field
Squaring is monotone on the nonnegatives
Squares of nonzero elements are positive