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Maxwell, Yang-Mills, Weyl and eikonal fields defined by any null shear-free congruence

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2017-01-01 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We show that (specifically scaled) equations of shear-free null geodesic congruences on the Minkowski space-time possess intrinsic self-dual, restricted gauge and algebraic structures. The complex eikonal, Weyl 2-spinor, SL(2,C)SL(2,\mathbb C) Yang-Mills and complex Maxwell fields, the latter produced by integer-valued electric charges ("elementary" for the Kerr-like congruences), can all be explicitly associated with any shear-free null geodesic congruence. Using twistor variables, we derive the general solution of the equations of the shear-free null geodesic congruence (as a modification of the Kerr theorem) and analyze the corresponding "particle-like" field distributions, with bounded singularities of the associated physical fields. These can be obtained in a straightforward algebraic way and exhibit non-trivial collective dynamics simulating physical interactions

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@article{arxiv.1612.06718,
  title  = {Maxwell, Yang-Mills, Weyl and eikonal fields defined by any null shear-free congruence},
  author = {Vladimir V. Kassandrov and Joseph A. Rizcallah},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.06718},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

18 pages, 2 figures. Partly reproduces the old (unpublished) preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0012109

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