• DocumentCode
    1325565
  • Title

    Nonstandard electrical networks and the resurrection of Kirchhoff´s laws

  • Author

    Zemanian, Armen H.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook, NY, USA
  • Volume
    44
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    1997
  • fDate
    3/1/1997 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    221
  • Lastpage
    233
  • Abstract
    Kirchhoff´s laws fail to hold in general for infinite electrical networks. Standard calculus is simply incapable of resolving this paradox because it cannot provide the infinitesimals and more generally the hyperreal currents and voltages that such networks often require. However, nonstandard analysis can do precisely this. The idea of a nonstandard electrical network is introduced in this paper and is used to reestablish Kirchhoff´s laws for a fairly broad class of infinite electrical networks. The second section herein presents a fairly brief tutorial on infinitesimals, hyperreal numbers, and the key ideas of nonstandard analysis needed for a comprehension of this paper
  • Keywords
    cascade networks; ladder networks; network analysis; trees (mathematics); Kirchhoff laws; hyperreal numbers; infinite electrical networks; infinitesimals; nonstandard analysis; nonstandard electrical networks; Calculus; Chaos; Circuit theory; Differential equations; Electric resistance; Integrated circuit interconnections; Mathematics; Nonlinear circuits; Resistors; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory and Applications, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1057-7122
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/81.557365
  • Filename
    557365