title: List of problems for future research in generalized Lorenz-Mie theories and related topics, review and prospectus [invited].
abstract: The expression "generalized Lorenz-Mie theories" generically denotes a class of light-scattering theories describing the interaction between an illuminating electromagnetic arbitrary-shaped beam and a particle possessing a high degree of symmetry. This allows one to use the method of separation of variables in which the illuminating beam is expressed as an expansion over a set of basis functions. Such theories have been derived and applied over the past 35 years. Although, as a whole, these theories are now well developed, there remains a list of problems to be solved, some of which are described in this paper.
authors: Laboratoire d’Electromagnétisme des Systèmes Particulaires (LESP), Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 6614 du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Rouen, Saint-Etienne-du Rouvray 76801, France. gouesbet@coria.fr
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