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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

The Maxwell equations for the spherical components of the electromagnetic fields outside sources do not separate into equations for each component alone. We show, however, that general solutions can be obtained by separation of variables in…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. A. Matute

Two known, alternative to each other, forms of the Maxwell's electromagnetic equations in a moving uniform media are investigated and discussed. Approach commonly used after Minkowski is based on the two tensors: H^{ab} = (D, H /c) and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 V. A. Red'kov , George J. Spix

We consider spacetime to be a 4-dimensional differentiable manifold that can be split locally into time and space. No metric, no linear connection are assumed. Matter is described by classical fields/fluids. We distinguish electrically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Friedrich W. Hehl , Yuri N. Obukhov

By fixing a reference frame in spacetime, it is possible to split the Euler-Lagrange equations associated with a degenerate Lagrangian into purely evolutionary equations and constraints on the allowed Cauchy data with respect to the notion…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-11-14 Florio M. Ciaglia , Fabio Di Cosmo , Giuseppe Marmo , Luca Schiavone

Maxwell's equations hold in inertial reference frames in uniform translational motion relative to one another. In conjunction with the Lorentz coordinate transformation equations, the transformation equations for the electric and magnetic…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. M. Snyder

We study the electromagnetic field equations on an arbitrary quantum curved background in the semiclassical approximation of Loop Quantum Gravity. The effective interaction hamiltonian for the Maxwell and gravitational fields is obtained…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Carlos Kozameh , Florencia Parisi

The relationship between magnetoelectricity and electromagnetism is a subject of a strong interest and numerous discussions in microwave and optical wave physics and material sciences. The definition of the energy and momentum of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-22 E. O. Kamenetskii

While the postulate of covariance of Maxwell's equations for all inertial observers led Einstein to special relativity, it was the further demand of general covariance -- form invariance under general coordinate transformations, including…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-12 Robert T. Thompson

The governing equations of Maxwell electrodynamics in multi-dimensional spaces are derived from the variational principle of least action which is applied to the action function of the electromagnetic field. The Hamiltonian approach for the…

General Physics · Physics 2023-06-13 Alexei M. Frolov

The differential form of the Maxwell's equations was first derived based on an assumption that the media are stationary, which is the foundation for describing the electro-magnetic coupling behavior of a system. For a general case in which…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-08-29 Zhong Lin Wang

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

A quantization scheme for the phenomenological Maxwell theory of the full electromagnetic field in an inhomogeneous three-dimensional, dispersive and absorbing dielectric medium is developed. The classical Maxwell equations with spatially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ho Trung Dung , L. Knoell , D. -G. Welsch

We begin by reviewing the derivation of generalized Maxwell equations from an operational definition of the electromagnetic field and the most basic notions of what constitutes a dynamical field theory. These equations encompass the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Haugan , C. Laemmerzahl

Maxwell's equations are obeyed in a one-parameter group of isotropic gravity-free flat space-times whose metric depends upon the value of the group parameter. An experimental determination of this value has been proposed. If it is zero, the…

General Physics · Physics 2014-06-13 Carl E. Wulfman

Graviton-photon conversions in a given external electric or magnetic field, known as the Gertsenshtein mechanism, are usually treated using the four-potential for photons. In terms of the electric and magnetic (EM) fields, however, proper…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-23 Jai-chan Hwang , Hyerim Noh

Based on the analysis of biquaternion quadratic forms of field, it is shown that Maxwell equations arise as a consequence of the principle of conservation of the energy-momentum flow of field in space-time. It turns out that this principle…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 Sergey Y. Kotkovskiy

Recently, Bennett et al. [Eur. J. Phys. 37:014001, 2016] presented a physically-motivated and explicitly gauge-independent scheme for the quantisation of the electromagnetic field in flat Minkowski space. In this paper we generalise this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Ben Maybee , Daniel Hodgson , Almut Beige , Robert Purdy

In this paper a formulation of the field equation for moving media is developed by the generalization of an axiomatic geometric formulation of the electromagnetism in vacuum (Ivezi\'{c} T 2005 Found. Phys. Lett. 18 401. First, the field…

General Physics · Physics 2017-06-06 Tomislav Ivezic

Maxwell equations provide a complete description of the electromagnetic (EM) phenomena, which have been one of the key fundamental-theories of modern physics, such as electromagnetism, optics, quantum theories, etc. The vacuum permittivity…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-12-25 Zhiwei Sun