Are Maxwell's equations Lorentz-covariant?
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DOI10.1088/0143-0807/38/1/015602zbMATH Open1364.78008arXiv1605.05358OpenAlexW2963615783MaRDI QIDQ2957413FDOQ2957413
Authors: D. V. Redžić 
Publication date: 26 January 2017
Published in: European Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: The statement that Maxwell's electrodynamics in vacuum is already covariant under Lorentz transformations is commonplace in the literature. We analyse the actual meaning of that statement and demonstrate that Maxwell's equations are perfectly fit to be Lorentz-covariant; they become Lorentz-covariant if we construct to be so, by postulating certain transformation properties of field functions. In Aristotelian terms, the covariance is a plain potentiality, but not necessarily entelechy.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.05358
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