On linear electromagnetic constitutive laws that define almost-complex structures

DOI10.1002/ANDP.200610227zbMATH Open1111.83023OpenAlexW2023124506MaRDI QIDQ3428890FDOQ3428890

Authors D. H. Delphenich 

Publication date 30 March 2007

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0610031

zbMATH Keywords

pre-metric electromagnetismelectromagnetic constitutive laws

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

Abstract: It is shown that not all linear electromagnetic constitutive laws will define almost-complex structure on the bundle of 2-forms on the spacetime manifold when composed with the Poincare duality isomorphism, but only a restricted class of them that includes linear spatially isotropic and some bi-isotropic laws. Although this does not trivialize the formulation of the basic equations equations of pre-metric electromagnetism, it does affect their reduction to metric electromagnetism by its effect on the types of media that are reducible, and possibly its effect on the way that such media support the propagation of electromagnetic waves.

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• Differential Forms in Electromagnetics
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