Effective Observer-Split Source Terms in Rotating Frames and Gravitomagnetic Backgrounds in Extended Aharonov-Bohm Electrodynamics
Abstract
We examine whether rotating frames and stationary gravitomagnetic backgrounds can provide a meaningful link to extended Aharonov-Bohm electrodynamics without invoking microscopic charge non-conservation. For standard generally covariant, locally -invariant matter, the answer at the microscopic level is negative: the physical four-current remains covariantly conserved, so neither rotation nor stationary gravitomagnetism by themselves generate a genuine source for the scalar sector. A weaker but still useful connection nevertheless emerges after a decomposition with respect to a rotating observer congruence. In that description, the observer-measured transport current on the spatial slice obeys a projected continuity equation containing an exact split source term , which reduces in the weak-field regime to . This term is not a frame-independent microscopic anomaly; it is the bookkeeping term that appears when covariant conservation is rewritten in transport variables adapted to a rotating slicing. We then propose a phenomenological AB-type closure in which this split source drives the scalar sector on finite-scale rotating systems. In the rigid-rotation weak-field limit, the source reduces to , and for localized transients to . The resulting framework is therefore effective rather than fundamental, observer-tied rather than local-inertial, and experimentally meaningful only at mesoscopic or macroscopic scales. It yields concrete operational signatures, including reversal under , suppression for nearly axisymmetric charge distributions, and sensitivity to transient non-axisymmetric charge structure.
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@article{arxiv.2604.24787,
title = {Effective Observer-Split Source Terms in Rotating Frames and Gravitomagnetic Backgrounds in Extended Aharonov-Bohm Electrodynamics},
author = {A. Iadicicco and G. Modanese and L. Verolino},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.24787},
year = {2026}
}
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16 pages, 3 figures; 2 code sources uploaded