Causal structure and algebraic classification of non-dissipative linear optical media

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2010.04.008zbMATH Open1200.83055arXiv0908.1016OpenAlexW1990230040MaRDI QIDQ710449FDOQ710449

Mattias N. R. Wohlfarth, Christof Witte, Frederic P. Schuller

Publication date: 19 October 2010

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

Abstract: Area metric manifolds emerge as a refinement of symplectic and metric geometry in four dimensions, where in numerous situations of physical interest they feature as effective matter backgrounds. In this article, this prompts us to identify those area metric manifolds that qualify as viable spacetime backgrounds in the first place, in so far as they support causally propagating matter. This includes an identification of the timelike future cones and their duals associated to an area metric geometry, and thus paves the ground for a discussion of the related local and global causal structure in standard fashion. In order to provide simple algebraic criteria for an area metric manifold to present a consistent spacetime structure, we develop a complete algebraic classification of area metric tensors up to general transformations of frame. Remarkably, a suitable coarsening of this classification allows to prove a theorem excluding the majority of algebraic classes of area metrics as viable spacetimes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.1016

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zbMATH Keywords

causalityalgebraic curvature tensorspace-time geometryalgebraic classification

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

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