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Divergence of inverse square

asked 2021-02-07 00:15:43 +0100

curios_mind gravatar image

Hello,

I tried to calculate the divergence of 1/r^2e_r, but I got zero, where it should have been 4pidirac_delta(re_r)

E.<r,th,ph>=EuclideanSpace(coordinates="spherical")
v=E.vector_field([1/r^2,0,0])
v.div().display()

Results is

E^3 --> R
(r, th, ph) |--> 0

Can this be considered as a bug?

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answered 2021-02-07 14:24:51 +0100

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In the current implementation, vector fields are assumed to be smooth functions on their domain. The vector field that you have defined is not (actually, it is not even defined at $r=0$), so I would say this is not a bug.

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It would have been great, if it had given the dirac solution.

curios_mind gravatar imagecurios_mind ( 2021-02-08 14:54:22 +0100 )edit

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