Evolutionary equations and constraints: Maxwell equations

DOI10.1063/1.5109087zbMATH Open1471.78003arXiv1910.09654OpenAlexW3103558760WikidataQ126813964 ScholiaQ126813964MaRDI QIDQ5206047FDOQ5206047

Authors: Florio M. Ciaglia, Luca Schiavone, Fabio Di Cosmo, Giuseppe Marmo 

Publication date: 17 December 2019

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

Abstract: By fixing a reference frame in spacetime, it is possible to split the Euler-Lagrange equations associated with a degenerate Lagrangian into purely evolutionary equations and constraints on the allowed Cauchy data with respect to the notion of Space and Time associated with the given reference frame. In the context of Classical Electrodynamics, we introduce a "covariantization procedure" that allows to invert the perspective and to recover a full-fledged covariant formulation of Maxwell's equations starting only with constraint equations (i.e., Gauss' law and the local version of the law of conservation of magnetic flux) as perceived in a sufficient number of (inertial) reference frames on Minkowski spacetime.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.09654

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zbMATH Keywords

constraintsdifferential formselectromagnetic fieldMaxwell equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Maxwell equations (35Q61) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Special relativity (83A05) Differential forms in global analysis (58A10)

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