Spacetime structure and electromagnetism

DOI10.1142/S0217732310032883zbMATH Open1193.83040arXivgr-qc/0505092OpenAlexW2026279287MaRDI QIDQ3583253FDOQ3583253

Authors: M. I. Wanas, Samah. A. Ammar 

Publication date: 26 August 2010

Published in: Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Two Lagrangian functions are used to construct geometric field theories. One of these Lagrangians depends on the curvature of space, while the other depends on curvature and torsion. It is shown that the theory constructed from the first Lagrangian gives rise to pure gravity, while the theory constructed using the second Lagrangian gives rise to both gravity and electromagnetism. The two theories are constructed in a version of absolute parallelism geometry in which both curvature and torsion are, simultaneously, non-vanishing. One single geometric object, {it W-tensor}, reflecting the properties of curvature and torsion, is defined in this version and is used to construct the second theory. The main conclusion is that a necessary condition for geometric representation of electromagnetism is the presence of a non-vanishing torsion in the geometry used.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0505092

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zbMATH Keywords

gravity theoryRiemann-Cartan spacesgeometrization of physicsa pure geometric matter tensor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

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