Quaternionic equation for electromagnetic fields in inhomogeneous media

Abstract

We show that the Maxwell equations for arbitrary inhomogeneous media are equivalent to a single quaternionic equation which can be considered as a generalization of the Vekua equation for generalized analytic functions.

Submitted to Proceedings of the Third ISAAC congress in Berlin in August 2001

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