Eikonal approximation to 5D wave equations as geodesic motion in a curved 4D spacetime

DOI10.1007/S10714-005-0038-7zbMATH Open1075.83008arXivhep-ph/0205018OpenAlexW1987832704MaRDI QIDQ2487280FDOQ2487280

Authors: O. Oron, L. Horwitz 

Publication date: 19 August 2005

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We first derive the relation between the eikonal approximation to the Maxwell wave equations in an inhomogeneous anisotropic medium and geodesic motion in a three dimensional Riemannian manifold using a method which identifies the symplectic structure of the corresponding mechanics. We then apply an analogous method to the five dimensional generalization of Maxwell theory required by the gauge invariance of Stueckelberg's covariant classical and quantum dynamics to demonstrate, in the eikonal approximation, the existence of geodesic motion for the flow of mass in a four dimensional pseudo-Riemannian manifold. These results provide a foundation for the geometrical optics of the five dimensional radiation theory and establish a model in which there is mass flow along geodesics. Finally we discuss the case of relativistic quantum theory in an anisotropic medium as well. In this case the eikonal approximation to the relativistic quantum mechanical current coincides with the geodesic flow governed by the pseudo-Riemannian metric obtained from the eikonal approximation to solutions of the Stueckelberg-Schr"odinger equation. This construction provides a model for an underlying quantum mechanical structure for classical dynamical motion along geodesics on a pseudo-Riemannian manifold. The locally symplectic structure which emerges is that of Stueckelberg's covariant mechanics on this manifold.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0205018

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zbMATH Keywords

eikonal approximationFermat's principlegeodesic motion5D wave equationeikonals of the Maxwell wave equation[https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/w/index.php?title=+Special%3ASearch&search=relativistic+Stueckelberg-Schr%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BDdinger+equation&go=Go relativistic Stueckelberg-Schr��dinger equation]

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Einstein-Maxwell equations (83C22) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

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