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Strong gravitational force induced by static electromagnetic fields

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2007-05-23 v1 Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

It is argued that static electric or magnetic fields induce Weyl-Majumdar-Papapetrou solutions for the metric of spacetime. Their gravitational acceleration includes a term many orders of magnitude stronger than usual perturbative terms. It gives rise to a number of effects, which can be detected experimentally. Four electrostatic and four magnetostatic examples of physical set-ups with simple symmetries are proposed. The different ways in which mass sources enter and complicate the pure electromagnetic picture are described.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0407048,
  title  = {Strong gravitational force induced by static electromagnetic fields},
  author = {B. V. Ivanov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0407048},
  year   = {2007}
}

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31 pages, Revtex4