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The appearance in pairs of complex waves is discussed for an open waveguiding structure. It is shown that the absence of losses in the system requires the simultaneous presence of two complex waves, the wavenumbers of which possess symmetry properties of the conjugate type. These properties still hold if radiation losses occur, and the symmetry disappears only if conduction losses are introduced.
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