href="#ulink_2a4f3778-1952-572c-9b14-b42a658e51eb">2.28) corresponds to general second-order weak spatial dispersion constitutive relations. The presence of the spatial derivatives makes it practically cumbersome, and we shall therefore transform it into a simpler form [148]. For simplicity, we restrict our attention to the isotropic version of (2.28), which may be written as [29]
where is the permittivity, and , , and are complex scalar constants related to the parameters in (2.28). In order to simplify (2.29), we shall first demonstrate that Maxwell equations are invariant under the transformation [148]
hence proving the equivalence of (2.33) and (2.31), and therefore demonstrating the invariance of Maxwell equations under the transformation (2.30) for any [148]. We now substitute (2.29) into (2.30) along with , which yields