Curl of a Div of a Green's Function

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The discussion revolves around the mathematical properties of the Green's function for the Laplacian, specifically the curl of the gradient of this function. The original poster initially inquires about calculating the divergence of the curl of the Green's function but later clarifies that they meant the curl of the gradient. It is established that the divergence of the curl of any vector field is zero, which applies here as well. The conclusion emphasizes that this result holds true regardless of whether the function in question is a Green's function. Overall, the mathematical properties discussed reinforce fundamental concepts in vector calculus.
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Okey Dokey, so I'm bored and decided to play around with some math. I've got a problem that I can't figure out now; I have the green's function for the laplacian

G(\vec{x}, \vec{x'}) = - \frac{1}{4\pi |\vec{x} - \vec{x'}|}

There are no boundary conditions.

Is there any lazy way to figure out the div of the curl of the green's function, or do I have to do some work on this one?

[EDIT]: The lack of coffee is getting to me, it's the curl of a gradient of the green's function.
 
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div(curl(A))=0 for any vector A
 
The OP editted it to curl(grad f) but it easy to show that that is 0 also!

\left|\begin{array}{ccc} \vec{i} & \vec{j} & \vec{k} \\ \frac{\partial}{\partial x} & \frac{\partial}{\partial y} & \frac{\partial}{\partial z} \\ f_x & f_y & f_z \end{array} \right|= \vec{0}

It doesn't matter whether the function is Green's function or not.
 

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