scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1341569

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Authors Mark Israelit

Publication date 17 February 2000

zbMATH Keywords

electrodynamicsgravitymagnetic monopolesprojective transformationstorsionWeyl covector

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Review text

It is proposed that in a generalized version of general relativity, the Weyl covector couples to electric currents. Some consequences of this theory, such as massive photons and magnetic monopoles are discussed. It has been shown by \textit{F. W. Hehl, J. D. McCrea, E. W. Mielke} and \textit{Y. Ne'eman} [Metric-affine gauge theory of gravity: Field equations, Noether identities, and conformal properties, Phys. Rep. 258, 1-171 (1995)] that, in view of the Noether identities for the scaling group, the Weyl covector couples to its associated dilaton current, which, without ad-hoc arguments, is rather distinct from the electric current. See also \textit{A. Macías, E. W. Mielke, H. A. Morales-Técotl} and \textit{R. Tresguerres} [J. Math. Phys. 36, 5868-5876 (1995; Zbl 0842.53072)] for related projective transformations. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0897.00038].

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