DERIVATION OF THE SOURCE-FREE MAXWELL AND GRAVITATIONAL RADIATION EQUATIONS BY GROUP THEORETICAL METHODS

DOI10.1142/S021827180600822XzbMATH Open1101.83020arXivgr-qc/0604023MaRDI QIDQ5481894FDOQ5481894

Authors: J. Ramos, Robert Gilmore 

Publication date: 24 August 2006

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We derive source-free Maxwell-like equations in flat spacetime for any helicity "j" by comparing the transformation properties of the 2(2j+1) states that carry the manifestly covariant representations of the inhomogeneous Lorentz group with the transformation properties of the two helicity "j" states that carry the irreducible representations of this group. The set of constraints so derived involves a pair of curl equations and a pair of divergence equations. These reduce to the free-field Maxwell equations for j=1 and the analogous equations coupling the gravito-electric and the gravito-magnetic fields for j=2.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0604023

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zbMATH Keywords

gravitational radiationLorentz groupgravito-electromagnetism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein-Maxwell equations (83C22) Gravitational waves (83C35)

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