Although spherical harmonics will not appear explicitly in the sequel, it seems impossible to write a textbook on the subject of electromagnetic theory without a brief account of some of their most fundamental features.
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Milton, K.A., Schwinger, J. (2006). Spherical Harmonics. In: Electromagnetic Radiation: Variational Methods, Waveguides and Accelerators. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-29306-X_2
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