Action of the conformal group on steady state solutions to Maxwell's equations and background radiation

DOI10.1007/978-1-4939-1590-3_14MaRDI QIDQ5250243zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bertram Kostant, Nolan Wallach

Publication date 19 May 2015

Published in Symmetry: Representation Theory and Its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.5745

zbMATH Keywords

conformal compactificationMaxwell's equationsconformal groupunitary representationsbackground radiations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representations of Lie and linear algebraic groups over real fields: analytic methods (22E45) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05)

Abstract: The representation of the conformal group (PSU(2,2)) on the space of solutions to Maxwell's equations on the conformal compactification of Minkowski space is shown to break up into four irreducible unitarizable smooth Fr'echet representations of moderate growth. An explicit inner product is defined on each representation. The frequency spectrum of each of these representations is analyzed. These representations have notable properties; in particular they have positive or negative energy, they are of type $A_{frakq}(lambda)$ and are quaternionic. Physical implications of the results are explained.

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