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We provide an explicit geometric generalisation of the antenna current Green's function (ACGF) formalism from the perfect electric conducting (PEC) to generic coupled N-body systems composed of arbitrarily shaped coupled PEC and dielectric objects, with the main emphasis on the mathematical foundations and the rigorous construction of the Green's function using distributional limits. Starting from mainly reciprocity, surface equivalence theorems, and other typical regularity conditions, we carefully construct the current Green's function by employing a combination of methods including Riemannian geometry, distribution theory, and functional analysis. The formalism outlined here for composite domains turns out to be more complicated than the PEC-only formulation due to the former's need to explicitly account for the coupling interaction between the magnetic and electric degrees of freedom. The approach is developed for extremely general systems, and use is made of Riemannian geometry to avoid working with specific or concrete configurations, hence retaining high generality in our final conclusions. While the ACGF tensor's matrix representations depend on the coordinate system on the manifolds supporting the electromagnetic boundary conditions, we focus here on providing coordinate-independent integral expressions for the induced current. With the ACGF it is possible to theoretically treat arbitrary N-body coupled PEC-dielectric configurations as space-frequency linear systems with an exact and rigorous response function being the current Green's function itself. While the derivation is very general, it still leaves open questions regarding whether the ACGF can be constructed for nonreciprocal systems or using volume integral equations.

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