New knotted solutions of Maxwell's equations

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/48/25/255204zbMATH Open1320.35338arXiv1502.01382OpenAlexW3104405285MaRDI QIDQ5263957FDOQ5263957

Carlos Hoyos, Nilanjan Sircar, J. Sonnenschein

Publication date: 20 July 2015

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

Abstract: In this note we have further developed the study of topologically non-trivial solutions of vacuum electrodynamics. We have discovered a novel method of generating such solutions by applying conformal transformations with complex parameters on known solutions expressed in terms of Bateman's variables. This has enabled us to get a wide class of solutions from the basic configuration like constant electromagnetic fields and plane-waves. We have introduced a covariant formulation of the Bateman's construction and discussed the conserved charges associated with the conformal group as well as a set of four types of conserved helicities. We have also given a formulation in terms of quaternions. This led to a simple map between the electromagnetic knotted and linked solutions into flat connections of $SU(2)$ gauge theory. We have computed the corresponding CS charge in a class of solutions and it takes integer values.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.01382

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zbMATH Keywords

classical electrodynamicsknotsquaternionstopological solutionsabelian-non abelian mapcomplex conformal transformation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Motion of charged particles (78A35) Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A40)

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