The zilch electromagnetic conservation law revisited

DOI10.1063/1.5126487zbMATH Open1460.78005arXiv1904.08639OpenAlexW3111410037MaRDI QIDQ3386504FDOQ3386504

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Publication date: 4 January 2021

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is shown that the zilch conservation law arises as the Noether current corresponding to a variational symmetry of a duality-symmetric Maxwell Lagrangian. The action of the corresponding symmetry generator on the duality-symmetric Lagrangian, while non-vanishing, is a total divergence as required by the Noether theory. The variational nature of the zilch conservation law was previously known only for some of the components of the zilch tensor, notably the optical chirality. By contrast, our analysis is fully covariant and is therefore valid for all components of the zilch tensor. The analysis is presented here for both real and complex versions of duality-symmetric Maxwell Lagrangians.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.08639

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Uniqueness problems for PDEs: global uniqueness, local uniqueness, non-uniqueness (35A02) Variational methods applied to PDEs (35A15) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Symmetries and conservation laws in mechanics of particles and systems (70S10) Physical optics (78A10)

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