Maxwell’s coefficients are conditional probabilities
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Abstract:
The capacitance coefficients of electrostatics are represented as conditional probabilities associated with Brownian motion. It follows, as an immediate consequence, that these coefficients depend monotonically on their domains.References
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Additional Information
- © Copyright 1974 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (1974), 449-453
- MSC: Primary 60J65; Secondary 78.31
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1974-0343379-6
- MathSciNet review: 0343379