Disformal invariance of Maxwell's field equations

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/30/15/155020MaRDI QIDQ2851383zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors E. Goulart, F. T. Falciano

Publication date 10 October 2013

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.4350

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Einstein-Maxwell equations (83C22)

Abstract: We show that Maxwell's electrodynamics in vacuum is invariant under active transformations of the metric. These metrics are related by disformal mappings induced by derivatives of the gauge vector $A_{mu}$ such that the gauge symmetry is preserved. Our results generalize the well known conformal invariance of electrodynamics and characterize a new type of internal symmetry of the theory. The group structure associated with these transformations is also investigated in details.

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