Electric currents in multiply connected spaces

DOI10.1007/BF00669440MaRDI QIDQ1120134zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Theodore Frankel

Publication date 1988

Published in International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00669440

zbMATH Keywords

2-sided surfaceconformally static universecurrent fluxElectric currentsinfinite timeintersection numberspace-time

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Products and intersections in homology and cohomology (55N45) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25)

Review text

Electric currents are considered within the framework of electromagnetism (electric fields solving Maxwell's equations) in a space-time of the form \({\mathbb{R}}\times V^ 3\). Theorem 1: No current flux through a closed 2- sided surface whose area is bounded in time, can be maintained for an infinite time. Theorem 2: Let space-time be a conformally static universe, and let C be a spatial wire loop that has zero intersection number with every closed 2-sided surface in the spatial section V. Then a current in C can be maintained for the lifetime of the universe. - Thus it depends on the topology of space whether one can maintain a current in any wire loop.

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