Hexadecapole at the heart of nonlinear electromagnetic fields
Abstract
In classical Maxwell's electromagnetism, monopole term of the electric field is proportional to , while higher order multipole terms, sourced by anisotropic sources, fall-off faster. However, in nonlinear electromagnetism even a spherically symmetric field has multipole-like contributions. We prove that the leading subdominant term of the electric field, defined by nonlinear electromagnetic Lagrangian obeying Maxwellian weak field limit, in a static, spherically symmetric, asymptotically flat spacetime, is of the order as . Moreover, using Lagrange inversion theorem and Fa\`a di Bruno's formula, we derive the series expansion of the electric field from the Taylor series of an analytic electromagnetic Lagrangian.
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@article{arxiv.2403.08909,
title = {Hexadecapole at the heart of nonlinear electromagnetic fields},
author = {Ana Bokulić and Tajron Jurić and Ivica Smolić},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.08909},
year = {2024}
}
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9 pages (published version; one footnote added and one sentence expanded)