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We describe the interplay between electric-magnetic duality and higher symmetry in Maxwell theory. When the fine-structure constant is rational, the theory admits non-invertible symmetries which can be realized as composites of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-01 Clay Cordova , Kantaro Ohmori

It is well known that the source-free Maxwell equations are invariant under electric-magnetic duality rotations, F --> F cos {\theta} + *F sin {\theta}. These transformations are indeed a symmetry of the theory in Noether sense. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-12 Ivan Agullo , Adrian del Rio , Jose Navarro-Salas

In the reduced phase space of electromagnetism, the generator of duality rotations in the usual Poisson bracket is shown to generate Maxwell's equations in a second, much simpler Poisson bracket. This gives rise to a hierarchy of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-05-12 Glenn Barnich , Cedric Troessaert

Known as a symmetry of vacuum Maxwell equations, the electric-magnetic duality can be lifted actually to a symmetry of an action. The Lagrangian of this action is written in terms of two vector potentials, one electric and one magnetic, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 Ignacio Cortese , José Antonio García

The symmetry studies of Maxwell equations gave new insight on the nature of electromagnetic (EM) field. Tey are reviewed in the work presented. It is drawing the attention on the following aspects. EM-field has in general case quaternion…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-07-11 Dmitri Yerchuck , Alla Dovlatova , Andrey Alexandrov

It is known that an electric-magnetic duality transformation is a symmetry of the classical source-free Maxwell theory in generic spacetimes. This provides a conserved Noether charge, physically related to the polarization state of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-19 Adrian del Rio

In this paper, we study the theory of second gradient electromagnetostatics as the static version of second gradient electrodynamics. The theory of second gradient electrodynamics is a linear generalization of higher order of classical…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-07-03 Markus Lazar , Jakob Leck

A theory of electromagnetism is proposed that is based on the Fermi Lagrangian, which is symmetric under electromagnetic spin rotation. Its features are: - the four-potential is unambiguously determined by the inhomogeneous wave equation…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-08 A. B. van Oosten

A general affine connection has enough degrees of freedom to describe the classical gravitational and electromagnetic fields in the metric-affine formulation of gravity. The gravitational field is represented in the Lagrangian by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-03-03 Nikodem J. Poplawski

The symmetry studies of Maxwell equations gave new insight on the nature of electromagnetic (EM) field. It has in general case quaternion single structure, consisting of four independent field constituents, which differ with each other by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-21 Dmitri Yerchuck , Alla Dovlatova , Andrey Alexandrov

We review and re-examine the description and separation of the spin and orbital angular momenta (AM) of an electromagnetic field in free space. While the spin and orbital AM of light are not separately-meaningful physical quantities in…

Optics · Physics 2014-09-26 Konstantin Y. Bliokh , Justin Dressel , Franco Nori

We examine Podolsky's electrodynamics, which is noninvariant under the usual duality transformation. We deduce a generalization of Hodge's star duality, which leads to a dual gauge field and restores to a certain extent the dual symmetry.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-11 F. T. Brandt , J. Frenkel , D. G. C. McKeon

We derive the Maxwell's equations on the $\kappa$-deformed spacetime, valid up to first order in the deformation parameter, using the Feynman's approach. We show that the electric-magnetic duality is a symmetry of these equations. It is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 E. Harikumar

We elaborate on the duality-symmetric nonlinear electrodynamics in a new formulation with auxiliary tensor fields. The Maxwell field strength appears only in bilinear terms of the corresponding generic Lagrangian, while the self-interaction…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 E. A. Ivanov , B. M. Zupnik

The electric and magnetic fields of a pole-dipole singularity attributed to a point-electron-singularity in the Maxwell field are expressed in a Colombeau algebra of generalized functions. This enables one to calculate dynamical quantities…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-19 Andre Gsponer

The concept "Classical Electromagnetism" in the title of the paper here refers to a theory built on three foundations: relativity principles, the original Maxwell's equations, and the mathematics of exterior calculus. In this theory of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Leif Pettersson

We argue that the classical theory of electromagnetism is based on Maxwell's macroscopic equations, an energy postulate, a momentum postulate, and a generalized form of the Lorentz law of force. These seven postulates constitute the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2013-12-13 Masud Mansuripur , Armis R. Zakharian

Maxwell's equations describe the evolution of electromagnetic fields, together with constraints on the divergence of the magnetic and electric flux densities. These constraints correspond to fundamental physical laws: the nonexistence of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Yakov Berchenko-Kogan , Ari Stern

We derive Maxwell equations for electric and magnetic fields in curved spacetime from first principles, relaxing an unnecessary assumption on the structure of the four-potential inherent to the standard approach and thus restoring the full…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-13 Anton V. Sokolov

The vacuum Einstein equations admit a formulation closely analogous to the source-free Maxwell theory. In particular, the linearized equations exhibit an electric-magnetic duality symmetry. We develop a framework that makes this analogy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-05 Adrian del Rio , Javier Olmedo , António Torres Manso