Complex structures in electrodynamics

zbMATH Open1125.78004arXivmath-ph/0106008MaRDI QIDQ874378FDOQ874378

Authors: Stoil Donev, Maria Tashkova 

Publication date: 5 April 2007

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Symmetry in Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we show that the basic external (i.e. not determined by the equations) object in Classical electrodynamics equations is a complex structure. In the 3-dimensional standard form of Maxwell equations this complex structure $mathcalI$ participates implicitly in the equations and its presence is responsible for the so called duality invariance. We give a new form of the equations showing explicitly the participation of $mathcalI$. In the 4-dimensional formulation the complex structure is extracted directly from the equations, it appears as a linear map $Phi$ in the space of 2-forms on $mathbb{R}^4$. It is shown also that $Phi$ may appear through the equivariance properties of the new formulation of the theory. Further we show how this complex structure $Phi$ combines with the Poincare isomorphism $mathfrakP$ between the 2-forms and 2-tensors to generate all well known and used in the theory (pseudo)metric constructions on $mathbb{R}^4$, and to define the conformal symmetry properties. The equations of Extended Electrodynamics (EED) do not also need these pseudometrics as beforehand necessary structures. A new formulation of the EED equations in terms of a generalized Lie derivative is given.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0106008

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zbMATH Keywords

dualityMaxwell equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25)

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