Radiation transport in diffractive media
Astrophysics
2009-11-10 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We consider radiation transport theory applied to non-dispersive but refractive media. This setting is used to discuss Minkowski's and Abraham's electromagnetic momentum, and to derive conservation equations independent of the choice of momentum definition. Using general relativistic kinetic theory, we derive and discuss a radiation gas energy-momentum conservation equation valid in arbitrary curved spacetime with diffractive media.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0503450,
title = {Radiation transport in diffractive media},
author = {Mattias Marklund},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0503450},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
10 pages, typos and equation numbers corrected, version to appear in J. Phys. A: Math. Gen