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Radiative transfer in half spaces of arbitrary dimension

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arxiv 1905.07825 v1 pith:CV3SBAJU submitted 2019-05-19 physics.class-ph

Radiative transfer in half spaces of arbitrary dimension

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We solve the classic albedo and Milne problems of plane-parallel illumination of an isotropically-scattering half-space when generalized to a Euclidean domain $\mathbb{R}^d$ for arbitrary $d \ge 1$. A continuous family of pseudo-problems and related $H$ functions arises and includes the classical 3D solutions, as well as 2D "Flatland" and rod-model solutions, as special cases. The Case-style eigenmode method is applied to the general problem and the internal scalar densities, emerging distributions, and their respective moments are expressed in closed-form. Universal properties invariant to dimension $d$ are highlighted and we find that a discrete diffusion mode is not universal for $d > 3$ in absorbing media. We also find unexpected correspondences between differing dimensions and between anisotropic 3D scattering and isotropic scattering in high dimension.

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