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We use the model approach to the description of spherical gravitating static fluid ball with an electric charge in general relativity. The metric is written in Bondi's coordinates. The total energy-momentum tensor (EMT) is chosen as a sum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-12-30 Alexandre M. Baranov , Zakhar V. Vlasov

We provide for the first time the exact solution of Maxwell's equations for a massless charged particle moving on a generic trajectory at the speed of light. In particular we furnish explicit expressions for the vector potential and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Francesco Azzurli , Kurt Lechner

This paper discusses the use of the Riemann-Silberstein vector to solve the source-free Maxwell's equations and obtains novel analytical solutions. The solving process naturally leads to the spinor form of the source-free Maxwell's…

General Physics · Physics 2024-03-28 Tong Chern

We develop some ideas about gauge symmetry in the context of Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism in the Hamiltonian formalism. One great benefit of this formalism is that it pairs momentum and configurational degrees of freedom, so that a…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2021-10-25 Henrique Gomes , Jeremy Butterfield

We obtain exact solutions to the class of parabolic partial differential equations of arbitrary dimensionality and with arbitrary potentials. The solutions are presented in a compact-form: as explicit mathematical expressions consisting of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-08-29 Ivan Gonoskov

The notion that the electromagnetic field is quantised is usually inferred from observations such as the photoelectric effect and the black-body spectrum. However accounts of the quantisation of this field are usually mathematically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-06 Robert Bennett , Thomas M. Barlow , Almut Beige

We find exact solutions to Maxwell equations written in terms of four-vector potentials in non--rotating, as well as in G\"odel and Kerr spacetimes. We show that Maxwell equations can be reduced to two uncoupled second-order differential…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-25 Felipe A. Asenjo , Sergio A. Hojman

We propose a simple relativistic derivation of the electric and the magnetic fields generated by an electric point charge moving with constant velocity. Our approach is based on the radar detection of the point space coordinates where the…

General Physics · Physics 2008-12-02 Bernhard Rothenstein , Stefan Popescu , George J. Spix

The evolution equations of Einstein's theory and of Maxwell's theory---the latter used as a simple model to illustrate the former--- are written in gauge covariant first order symmetric hyperbolic form with only physically natural…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 A. Abrahams , A. Anderson , Y. Choquet-Bruhat , J. W. York

We consider the three-dimensional Dirac equation in spherical coordinates with coupling to static electromagnetic potential. The space components of the potential have angular (non-central) dependence such that the Dirac equation is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. D. Alhaidari

The electron density $n(\rb,t)$, which is the central tool of time-dependent density functional theory, is presently considered to be derivable from a one-body time-dependent potential $V(\rb,t)$, via one-electron wave functions satisfying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-28 Thomas A. Niehaus , Norman H. March

Using a gauge covariant operator technique we deduce the path integral for a charged particle in a stationary magnetic field, verifying the "midpoint rule" for the discrete form of the interaction term with the vector potential.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Silvio J. Rabello , Carlos Farina

The possibility of an incompletness of the equations of electromagnetism is analyzed using a thought experiment that shows a non-physical behavior according to classical electromagnetism. Basically, from Maxwell equations it is shown that a…

General Physics · Physics 2010-05-03 Fernando O. Minotti

By applying the nonlinear Legendre transform to the continuity equation, this paper derives exact solutions to the Schr\"odinger equation and the equations of continuum mechanics. A generalized Maxwell distribution has been used as the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 E. E. Perepelkin , B. I. Sadovnikov , N. G. Inozemtseva , A. S. Medvedev

Since the Maxwell theory of electromagnetic phenomena is a gauge theory, it is quite important to evaluate the zero-point energy of the quantized electromagnetic field by a careful assignment of boundary conditions on the potential and on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Giampiero Esposito , Alexander Yu. Kamenshchik , Klaus Kirsten

The classification of exact solutions of Maxwell vacuum equations for the case when the electromagnetic fields and metrics of homogeneous spaces are invariant with respect to the motion group G(VII) is completed. All non-equivalent exact…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-12-27 V. V. Obukhov

An example of application of the specialized computer algebra system Grg-EC to the searching for solutions to the source-free Maxwell and Einstein--Maxwell equations is demonstrated. The solution involving five arbitrary functions of two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. I. Tertychniy

In classical electrodynamics all the measurable quantities can be derived from the gauge invariant Faraday tensor $F_{\alpha\beta}$. Nevertheless, it is often advantageous to work with gauge dependent variables. In [4],[2] and [8], and in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-12-22 Andor Frenkel , István Rácz

A simple argument is presented which, based on the minimal coupling Lagrangian for a many-body system, keeps the gauge invariance of the many-body Schr\"odinger equation with explicit Coulomb potential. The elimination of longitudinal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-11 Kikuo Cho

We compute the proper real-time interaction potential between a static quark and antiquark in classical lattice gauge theory at finite temperature. Our central result is the determination of the screened real-part of this potential, and we…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-07-28 Alexander Lehmann , Alexander Rothkopf