Solving system of three partial differential equations

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I have three differential equations:

$$\dfrac{\partial H}{\partial y}-\dfrac{\partial G}{\partial z}=A$$ $$\dfrac{\partial F}{\partial z}-\dfrac{\partial H}{\partial x}=B$$ $$\dfrac{\partial G}{\partial x}-\dfrac{\partial F}{\partial y}=C$$ where $A$, $B$ and $C$ are functions of $(x,y,z)$

How shall I write $F,G,H$ in terms of $A, B, C$?

EDIT: There is the condition : $\nabla.(\nabla \times \vec{A})=0$

Now how shall I proceed to get a solution?

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You want to solve

$$ \nabla \times \textbf{V} = \textbf{U} $$

with the condition $$ \nabla \cdot \textbf{U} = \frac{\partial A}{\partial x} + \frac{\partial B}{\partial y} + \frac{\partial C}{\partial z} =0 $$

Note that since the curl of any gradient field is $0$, the solution will not be unique, i.e. if $\textbf{V}$ is a solution, then another solution is $\bar{\textbf{V}} = \textbf{V} + \nabla \phi$, where $\phi(x,y,z)$ is some scalar function.

It's enough to find one particular solution, then add on an arbitrary gradient field at the end. A solution can be found by setting one of the components of $\textbf{V}$ to $0$. Let's say $H=0$ so the system is reduced to

\begin{align} - \frac{\partial G}{\partial z} &= A \\ \frac{\partial F}{\partial z} &= B \\ \frac{\partial G}{\partial x} - \frac{\partial F}{\partial y} &= C \end{align}

Then integrate the first two equations

\begin{align} G &= - \int A\ dz + g(x,y) \\ F &= \int B dz + f(x,y) \end{align}

At this point, the two arbitrary functions leftover from integration should be set so that the third equation is satisfied

$$ \frac{\partial G}{\partial x} - \frac{\partial F}{\partial y} = -\int \left(\frac{\partial A}{\partial x} + \frac{\partial B}{\partial y} \right)dz + \frac{\partial g}{\partial x} - \frac{\partial f}{\partial y} = C $$

Suppose that

$$ -\int \left(\frac{\partial A}{\partial x} + \frac{\partial B}{\partial y} \right) dz = C + h(x,y) $$

where $h(x,y)$ is a known function, then we must have

$$ \frac{\partial g}{\partial x} - \frac{\partial f}{\partial y} + h = 0 $$

To make it easy again, we can arbitrarily set $g=0$ and $f = \int h\ dy$