Null electromagnetic fields and relative Cauchy-Riemann embeddings

DOI10.1098/RSPA.2012.0583MaRDI QIDQ4921898zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jonathan Holland, George Sparling

Publication date 28 May 2013

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0110041

zbMATH Keywords

Cauchy-Riemann embeddingsCauchy-Riemann manifoldsnull electromagnetic fieldsshear-free congruencestwistor theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Embeddings of CR manifolds (32V30) Twistor methods in differential geometry (53C28)

Abstract: This paper applies the notion of relative CR embeddings to study two related questions. First, it answers negatively the question posed by Penrose whether every shear-free null rotating congruence is analytic. Second, it proves that given any shear-free null rotating congruence, there exists a null electromagnetic field which is null with respect to the given congruence. In the course of answering these questions, we introduce some new techniques for studying null electromagnetic fields and shear-free congruences in general based on the notion of a relative CR embedding.

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