Conformal symmetry transformations and nonlinear Maxwell equations

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-97175-9_9zbMATH Open1423.83006arXiv1704.00146OpenAlexW2745051867MaRDI QIDQ2002205FDOQ2002205

Gerald A. Goldin, Steven Duplij, Vladimir M. Shtelen

Publication date: 11 July 2019

Abstract: We make use of the conformal compactification of Minkowski spacetime $$ to explore a way of describing general, nonlinear Maxwell fields with conformal symmetry. We distinguish the inverse Minkowski spacetime $$ obtained via conformal inversion, so as to discuss a doubled compactified spacetime on which Maxwell fields may be defined. Identifying $$ with the projective light cone in $(4+2)$-dimensional spacetime, we write two independent conformal-invariant functionals of the $6$-dimensional Maxwellian field strength tensors -- one bilinear, the other trilinear in the field strengths -- which are to enter general nonlinear constitutive equations. We also make some remarks regarding the dimensional reduction procedure as we consider its generalization from linear to general nonlinear theories.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.00146

zbMATH Keywords

conformal symmetryMaxwell fieldsnonlinear constitutive equationsinverse Minkowski spacetimeprojective light cone

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Special relativity (83A05) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50)

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