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The Proof that the Standard Transformations of E and B are not the Lorentz Transformations. Clifford Algebra Formalism

General Physics 2022-10-12 v2 Classical Physics

Abstract

In this paper it is exactly proved by using the Clifford algebra formalism that the standard transformations of the three-dimensional (3D) vectors of the electric and magnetic fields E and B are not the Lorentz transformations of well-defined quantities from the 4D spacetime but the 'apparent' transformations of the 3D quantities. Thence the usual Maxwell equations with the 3D E and B are not in agreement with special relativity. The 1-vectors E and B, as well-defined 4D quantities, are introduced instead of ill-defined 3D E and B.

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@article{arxiv.physics/0304085,
  title  = {The Proof that the Standard Transformations of E and B are not the Lorentz Transformations. Clifford Algebra Formalism},
  author = {Tomislav Ivezic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0304085},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

16 pages, section 3.3. is added and it contains the same proof for Hestenes' and Jancewicz's E and B