Classical electromagnetic potential as a part of gravitational connection: ideas and history

DOI10.1134/S0202289318030076MaRDI QIDQ2320474zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors N. V. Kharuk, S. A. Paston, A. A. Sheykin

Publication date 23 August 2019

Published in Gravitation \& Cosmology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.02284

zbMATH Keywords

Einstein-Maxwell equationselectromagnetic potentialnon-symmetric connectionPalatini formalismunified theory of gravity and electromagnetism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Einstein-Maxwell equations (83C22) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: We consider a natural form of unified theory of gravity and electromagnetism which was somehow missed at the time of intense search for such an unification, and was noticed only in 1978 but remained quite unknown. The basic idea of this unification is to use the metric and non-symmetric connection as independent variables, which generalizes the so-called Palatini formalism. The certain components of connection in the appearing theory can be naturally identified with electromagnetic potential, and with the proper choice of action the Einstein-Maxwell equations are reproducing. In this paper we compare such an approach with the known ideas of unification. Also we propose the more consistent way of including matter (in the form of classical particles) in the theory and briefly discuss the perspectives of further development of this approach.

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