Gauge theory of oriented media

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/33/15/309zbMATH Open0973.74006arXivgr-qc/9911114OpenAlexW2037199918MaRDI QIDQ4507653FDOQ4507653

Authors: Ivangoe B. Pestov 

Publication date: 8 October 2000

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

Abstract: The concept of wave field is introduced to represent oriented media. The wave field is a tensor field of second rank, and directors are its eigenvectors. This exhibition of directors defines a natural gauge group inherit in continua and allows one to derive from variational principle general relativistic and gauge invariant equations for the wave field in question. Thus, the gauge-theoretical approach to continuum with internal degrees of freedom gives unambiguous and minimally coupled theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9911114

Recommendations

• A gauge theory of defects in media with microstructure
• Gauge field theory of a continuum with dislocations and disclinations
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3932479
• Gauge theory of ferroelastic interaction in ferroelectrics
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1429614

zbMATH Keywords

eigenvectorsvariational principlewave fieldoriented mediadirectorscontinuum with internal degrees of freedomnatural gauge grouprelativistic gauge-invariant equationstensor field of second rank

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polar materials (74A35) Classical field theories (70S99)

This page was built for publication: Gauge theory of oriented media

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q4507653)