On causality in nonlinear vacuum electrodynamics of the Plebański class

DOI10.1002/ANDP.201600124zbMATH Open1362.78001arXiv1604.02545OpenAlexW3122653851WikidataQ62005757 ScholiaQ62005757MaRDI QIDQ2956809FDOQ2956809

Authors: Volker Perlick, Gerold Schellstede, C. Lämmerzahl 

Publication date: 19 January 2017

Published in: Annalen der Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate the Pleba'nski class of electrodynamical theories, i.e., theories of nonlinear vacuum electrodynamics that derive from a Lorentz-invariant Lagrangian (or Hamiltonian). In any such theory the light rays are the lightlike geodesics of two optical metrics that depend on the electromagnetic background field. A set of necessary and sufficient conditions is found whose fulfillment secures that the optical metrics are causal in the sense that the light rays are lightlike or timelike with respect to the underlying space-time metric. Thereupon we derive conditions on the Lagrangian, or the Hamiltonian, of the theory such that the causality conditions are satisfied for all background fields. (The allowed values of the field strength tensor are those for which the excitation tensor is finite and real.) The general results are illustrated with several examples.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.02545

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zbMATH Keywords

metricHamiltonianLagrangianBorn-Infeld electrodynamicsHeisenberg-Euler electrodynamiccs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Maxwell equations (35Q61) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25)

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