A VARIATIONAL FORMULATION OF ELECTRODYNAMICS WITH EXTERNAL SOURCES

DOI10.1142/S0219887809003461MaRDI QIDQ3620395zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Antonio De Nicola, Wlodzimierz M. Tulczyjew

Publication date 14 April 2009

Published in International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0704.0433

zbMATH Keywords

electrodynamicsvariational principles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) Variational principles of physics (49S05) Electromagnetic effects in solid mechanics (74F15)

Abstract: We present a variational formulation of electrodynamics using de Rham even and odd differential forms. Our formulation relies on a variational principle more complete than the Hamilton principle and thus leads to field equations with external sources and permits the derivation of the constitutive relations. We interpret a domain in space-time as an odd de Rham 4-current. This permits a treatment of different types of boundary problems in an unified way. In particular we obtain a smooth transition to the infinitesimal version by using a current with a one point support.

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