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Electromagnetic fields on Kerr spacetime, Hertz potentials and Lorenz gauge

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2022-02-11 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We review two procedures for constructing the vector potential of the electromagnetic field on Kerr spacetime, namely, the classic method of Cohen & Kegeles, yielding AμA^\mu in a radiation gauge, and the newer method of Frolov et al., yielding AμA^\mu in Lorenz gauge. We demonstrate that the vector potentials are related by straightforward gauge transformations, which we give in closed form. We obtain a new result for a separable Hertz potential HμνH^{\mu \nu} such that Alorμ=νHμνA_{\text{lor}}^\mu = \nabla_\nu H^{\mu \nu}.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1906.04808,
  title  = {Electromagnetic fields on Kerr spacetime, Hertz potentials and Lorenz gauge},
  author = {Sam R Dolan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.04808},
  year   = {2022}
}

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