Conformal symmetry transformations and nonlinear Maxwell equations
Abstract
We make use of the conformal compactification of Minkowski spacetime to explore a way of describing general, nonlinear Maxwell fields with conformal symmetry. We distinguish the inverse Minkowski spacetime obtained via conformal inversion, so as to discuss a doubled compactified spacetime on which Maxwell fields may be defined. Identifying with the projective light cone in -dimensional spacetime, we write two independent conformal-invariant functionals of the -dimensional Maxwellian field strength tensors -- one bilinear, the other trilinear in the field strengths -- which are to enter general nonlinear constitutive equations. We also make some remarks regarding the dimensional reduction procedure as we consider its generalization from linear to general nonlinear theories.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1704.00146,
title = {Conformal symmetry transformations and nonlinear Maxwell equations},
author = {Gerald A. Goldin and Vladimir M. Shtelen and Steven Duplij},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.00146},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
12 pages, Based on a talk by the first author at the International Conference in Mathematics in honor of Prof. M. Norbert Hounkonnou (October 29-30, 2016, Cotonou, Benin). To be published in the Proceedings, Springer 2017