Contents -- Prologue -- Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and Principal Symbols -- 1. The Maxwell Postulates and Constitutive Relations -- 1.1 From microscopic to macroscopic -- 1.2 Boundary conditions -- 1.3 Constitutive relations -- 1.4 The frequency domain -- 1.5 6-vector/6×6 dyadic notation -- 1.6 Forminvariances -- 1.6.1 Time reversal -- 1.6.2 Spatial inversion -- 1.6.3 Lorentz covariance -- 1.6.4 Chiral invariance -- 1.6.5 Conjugate invariance -- 1.6.6 Energy and momentum -- 1.7 Constitutive dyadics -- 1.7.1 Constraints -- 1.7.1.1 Causality and Kramers-Kronig relations -- 1.7.1.2 Post constraint -- 1.7.1.3 Onsager relations -- 1.7.2 Specializations -- 1.7.2.1 Lorentz reciprocity -- 1.7.2.2 Dissipative, nondissipative and active mediums -- References -- 2. Linear Mediums -- 2.1 Isotropy -- 2.1.1 Free space -- 2.1.2 Dielectric-magnetic mediums -- 2.1.3 Isotropic chirality -- 2.2 Anisotropy -- 2.2.1 Uniaxial anisotropy -- 2.2.2 Biaxial anisotropy -- 2.2.3 Gyrotropy -- 2.3 Bianisotropy -- 2.3.1 Mediums moving at constant velocity -- 2.3.2 Uniaxial and biaxial bianisotropy -- 2.3.3 Mediums with simultaneous mirror-conjugated and racemic chirality characteristics -- 2.3.4 Faraday chiral mediums -- 2.3.5 Pseudochiral omega mediums -- 2.4 Nonhomogeneous mediums -- 2.4.1 Periodic nonhomogeneity -- 2.4.2 Gravitationally induced bianisotropy -- References -- 3. Spacetime Symmetries and Constitutive Dyadics -- 3.1 Point groups of classical crystallography -- 3.2 Magnetic point groups -- 3.3 Continuous point groups -- 3.4 Space groups -- References -- 4. Planewave Propagation -- 4.1 Uniform and nonuniform plane waves -- 4.2 Eigenanalysis -- 4.3 Reflection and refraction of plane waves -- 4.4 Uniform plane waves in isotropic mediums -- 4.4.1 Dielectric-magnetic mediums -- 4.4.2 Isotropic chiral mediums.

4.5 Uniform plane waves in anisotropic mediums -- 4.5.1 Uniaxial mediums -- 4.5.2 Biaxial mediums -- 4.5.3 Gyrotropic mediums -- 4.6 Uniform plane waves in bianisotropic mediums -- 4.6.1 Mediums moving at constant velocity -- 4.6.2 Mediums with simultaneous mirror-conjugated and racemic chirality characteristics -- 4.6.3 Faraday chiral mediums -- 4.6.4 Beltrami fields in a bianisotropic medium -- 4.7 Plane waves in nonhomogeneous mediums -- 4.7.1 Periodic nonhomogeneity -- 4.7.2 Gravitationally affected vacuum -- 4.8 Exotic planewave phenomenons -- 4.8.1 Plane waves with negative phase velocity -- 4.8.2 Hyperbolic dispersion relations -- 4.8.3 Voigt waves -- 4.8.3.1 Anisotropic dielectric mediums -- 4.8.3.2 Bianisotropic mediums -- 4.8.4 Negative reflection -- 4.8.5 Counterposition of wavevector and time-averaged Poynting vector -- References -- 5. Dyadic Green Functions -- 5.1 Definition and properties -- 5.2 Closed-form representations -- 5.2.1 Isotropic mediums -- 5.2.1.1 Dielectric-magnetic mediums -- 5.2.1.2 Isotropic chiral mediums -- 5.2.2 Uniaxial dielectric-magnetic mediums -- 5.2.3 More complex mediums -- 5.3 Huygens principle -- 5.3.1 Uniaxial dielectric-magnetic mediums -- 5.3.2 Isotropic chiral mediums -- 5.4 Eigenfunction representations -- 5.4.1 Homogeneous mediums -- 5.4.2 Nonhomogeneous mediums -- 5.5 Depolarization dyadics -- 5.5.1 Ellipsoidal shape -- 5.5.2 Spherical shape -- 5.5.2.1 Isotropic ambient mediums -- 5.5.2.2 Anisotropic mediums -- 5.5.3 Bianisotropic mediums -- 5.6 Connection to plasmonics -- References -- 6. Homogenization -- 6.1 Constituent mediums -- 6.2 Maxwell Garnett formalism -- 6.3 Bruggeman formalism -- 6.4 Strong-property-fluctuation theory -- 6.4.1 Background -- 6.4.2 Estimates of constitutive parameters -- 6.4.2.1 Zeroth and first order -- 6.4.2.2 Second order -- 6.4.2.3 Third order.

6.5 Extended homogenization formalisms -- 6.6 Anisotropy and bianisotropy via homogenization -- 6.7 Homogenized composite mediums as metamaterials -- References -- 7. Nonlinear Mediums -- 7.1 Constitutive relations -- 7.2 Homogenization -- 7.2.1 Maxwell Garnett formalism -- 7.2.2 Strong-property-fluctuation theory -- 7.2.2.1 Weakly nonlinear, isotropic dielectric HCM -- 7.2.2.2 Weakly nonlinear, isotropic chiral HCM -- 7.2.2.3 Weakly nonlinear, anisotropic dielectric HCM -- 7.3 Nonlinearity enhancement -- 7.4 Quantum electrodynamic vacuum -- References -- Appendix A Dyadic Notation and Analysis -- References -- Epilogue -- Index -- About the Authors.