Duality and helicity: a symplectic viewpoint

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2016.08.041zbMATH Open1371.78011arXiv1608.01131OpenAlexW2501463646MaRDI QIDQ2364065FDOQ2364065

Authors: Mahmut Elbistan, Christian Duval, Peter A. Horváthy, Pengming Zhang 

Publication date: 17 July 2017

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The theorem which says that helicity is the conserved quantity associated with the duality symmetry of the vacuum Maxwell equations is proved by viewing electromagnetism as an infinite dimensional symplectic system. In fact, it is shown that helicity is the moment map of duality acting as an $SO(2)$ group of canonical transformations on the symplectic space of all solutions of the vacuum Maxwell equations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.01131

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zbMATH Keywords

symplectic systemvacuum Maxwell equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A02) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25)

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