SUMMARYThe constitutive relationship between fields in eleatromagnetic media is cast in error form. For well-posed static problems, the error splits systematically into complementary functionals. Error minimization provides a universal'variational principle that generates complementary and dual solution formulations. The error, which is wholly attributed to the numerical constraints in approximate solutions, is always defined and computable locally and globally.
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