Comment on ‘Do electromagnetic waves always propagate along null geodesics?’

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AC2C19MaRDI QIDQ3383646zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors James Read, Niels S. Linnemann

Publication date 16 December 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.00648

zbMATH Keywords

wave propagationminimal couplinggeometrical optics limitMaxwell equations in curved spacetimesignal propagation in curved spacetime

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Traveling wave solutions (35C07) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Einstein-Maxwell equations (83C22) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50)

Abstract: We study the propagation of Maxwellian electromagnetic waves in curved spacetimes in terms of the appropriate geometrical optics limit, notions of signal speed, and minimal coupling prescription from Maxwellian theory in flat spacetime. In the course of this, we counter a recent major claim by Asenjo and Hojman (2017) to the effect that the geometrical optics limit is partly ill-defined in G"odel spacetime; we thereby dissolve the present tension concerning established results on wave propagation and the optical limit.

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