Spacetime Metric from Local and Linear Electrodynamics: A New Axiomatic Scheme

DOI10.1007/3-540-34523-X_7MaRDI QIDQ3527167zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Friedrich W. Hehl, Yuri N. Obukhov

Publication date 25 September 2008

Published in Special Relativity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0508024

zbMATH Keywords

electric chargemagnetic fluxmatterspace time

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Einstein-Maxwell equations (83C22) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We consider spacetime to be a 4-dimensional differentiable manifold that can be split locally into time and space. No metric, no linear connection are assumed. Matter is described by classical fields/fluids. We distinguish electrically charged from neutral matter. Electric charge and magnetic flux are postulated to be conserved. As a consequence, the inhomogeneous and the homogeneous Maxwell equations emerge expressed in terms of the excitation H and the field strength F, respectively. H and F are assumed to fulfill a local and linear "spacetime relation" with 36 constitutive functions. The propagation of electromagnetic waves is considered under such circumstances in the geometric optics limit. We forbid birefringence in vacuum and find the light cone including its Lorentzian signature. Thus the conformally invariant part of the metric is recovered. If one sets a scale, one finds the pseudo-Riemannian metric of spacetime.

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