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Exact Axisymmetric Solutions of the Maxwell Equations in a Nonlinear Nondispersive Medium E. Yu. Petrov and A. V. Kudrin∗ University of Nizhny Novgorod, 23 Gagarin Ave., Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia The features of propagation of intense waves are of great interest for theory and experiment in electrodynamics and acoustics. The behavior of nonlinear waves in a bounded volume is of especial importance and, at the same time, is an extremely complicated problem. It seems almost impossible to find a rigorous solution to such a problem even for any model of nonlinearity. We obtain the first exact solution of this type. We present a new method for deriving exact solutions of the Maxwell 3 equations in a nonlinear medium without dispersion and give examples of the obtained solutions 1 that describe propagation of cylindrical electromagnetic waves in a nonlinear nondispersive medium 0 and free electromagnetic oscillations in a cylindrical cavity resonator filled with such a medium. 2 n PACS numbers: 02.30.Jr, 03.50.De u J 4 Wave propagation in nonlinear media is a fundamental dent of φ and z , the Maxwell equations admit solutions and wide-ranging problem in physics [1, 2]. The possible in which only the Ez and Hφ components are nonzero ] self-steepening and formation of shock discontinuities in (E waves with respect to the symmetry axis). Restrict- h p large-amplitude pressure waves is well known in fluid me- ing