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Force-Free Flectrodynamics (FFE) is a non-linear system of equations modeling the evolution of the electromagnetic field, in the presence of a magnetically dominated relativistic plasma. This configuration arises on several astrophysical…

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In this paper we show that a free electromagnetic field living in Minkowski spacetime generates an effective Weitzenbock or an effective Lorentzian spacetime whose properties aredetermined in details. These results are possible because we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-07-21 Eduardo Notte-Cuello , Roldao da Rocha , Waldyr A. Rodrigues

This communication is devoted to a brief historical framework and to a comprehensive critical discussion concerning foundational issues of Electrodynamics. Attention is especially focused on the events which, about the end of XIX century,…

General Physics · Physics 2021-11-11 Giovanni Romano

This paper presents an in-depth exploration of timelike free geodesics in spatially curved Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) spacetime. A unified approach for these geodesics encompassing both radial and non-radial trajectories…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-13 Omar Nemoul , Hichem Guergouri , Jamal Mimouni

The luminosity and structure of neutron star magnetospheres are crucial to our understanding of pulsar and plerion emission. A solution found using the force-free approximation would be an interesting standard with which any model with more…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jonathan C. McKinney

The structure and dynamics of the solar corona is dominated by the magnetic field. In most areas in the corona magnetic forces are so dominant that all non-magnetic forces like plasma pressure gradient and gravity can be neglected in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Thomas Wiegelmann , Takashi Sakurai

We study universal electromagnetic (test) fields, i.e., p-forms fields F that solve simultaneously (virtually) any generalized electrodynamics (containing arbitrary powers and derivatives of F in the field equations) in n spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-09 Sigbjørn Hervik , Marcello Ortaggio , Vojtěch Pravda

In this work, exact solutions of static and spherically symmetric space-times are analyzed in f(R) modified theories of gravity coupled to nonlinear electrodynamics. Firstly, we restrict the metric fields to one degree of freedom,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-06-22 Lukas Hollenstein , Francisco S. N. Lobo

By describing the dynamical evolution of a test charged particle in the presence of an electromagnetic field as a succession of infinitesimal Lorentz boosts and rotations it is possible to obtain the Lorentz Force of Electrodynamics. A…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-01-21 J. Buitrago

Electromagnetism becomes a nonlinear theory having (effective) photon-photon interactions due at least to electron-positron fluctuations in the vacuum. We discuss the consequences of the nonlinearity for the force felt by a charge probe…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-03-20 Lance Labun , Jan Rafelski

In this paper, we establish an equivalence between force-free fields and conformally geodesic fields, and between harmonic fields and conformally eikonal fields in the context of conformal geometry. In contrast to previous work, our…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Albert Chern , Oliver Gross

Quantum electrodynamics (QED) effects may be included in physical processes of magnetar and pulsar magnetospheres with strong magnetic fields. Involving the quantum corrections, the Maxwell electrodynamics is modified to non-linear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-15 Huiquan Li , Xiaolin Yang , Jiancheng Wang

We prove two theorems which imply that any stationary nonlinear electromagnetic field obeying a dominant energy condition in a strictly stationary, everywhere regular, asymptotically flat spacetime must be either trivial or a stealth field.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-27 Ana Bokulić , Tajron Jurić , Ivica Smolić

The Darwin-Breit Hamiltonian is applied to the Aharonov-Bohm experiment. In agreement with the standard Maxwell-Lorentz theory, the force acting on electrons from infinite solenoids or ferromagnetic rods vanishes. However, the interaction…

General Physics · Physics 2008-03-19 Eugene V. Stefanovich

We construct a unified framework of geometrodynamics based on the Finsler geometry to reveal the relationship between spacetime and dynamics.The Lagrangian of electron in electromagnetic field as the Finsler function gives the Finslerian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Mingwei Zhou , Shi-Dong Liang

In this work, a method for constructing null foliations of spacetime is presented. This method is used to specify equivalence classes of null generators, whose representatives can be associated lightlike co-normals that are locally affine…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-26 Albert Huber

Attempts at an electromagnetic explanation of the inertial mass of charged particles have recently been revived within the framework of Stochastic Electrodynamics, characterized by the adoption of a classical version of the electromagnetic…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Ibison

We consider static, spherically symmetric configurations of nonlinear electromagnetic fields with Lagrangians $L(f)$, where $f = F_{\mu\nu} F^{\mu\nu}$, in general relativity (GR) and other metric theories of gravity. The corresponding…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-28 K. A. Bronnikov , S. V. Bolokhov , G. S. Nurbakova , B. Tynyshbay

In this study of the modified $f(Q)$ theory of gravity in the spatially flat Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) spacetime, we explore all the affine connections compatible with the symmetric teleparallel structure; three classes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-25 Ganesh Subramaniam , Avik De , Tee-How Loo , Yong Kheng Goh

The electromagnetic theory is considered in the framework of the generally covariant approach, that is applied to the analysis of electromagnetism in noninertial coordinate and frame systems. The special-relat\-ivistic formulation of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-10-14 Yuri N. Obukhov