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covarient derivative of electromagnetic field tensor
I'm trying to prove the energy momentum tensor in curved spacetime for Electromagnetic field is Divergence-less directly(Without using general lie derivative method which can prove any energy momentum ...
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How do I write the energy of a constant, uniform 2D charge distribution?
Let's consider a 2D electromagnetic field defined in a square domain $[0,\Lambda]^2$, with periodic boundary conditions, with a constant charge distribution, uniform all over the aforementioned ...
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Torsion and gauge invariant EM kinetic term
Everytime I hear about adding torsion to GR, something struggles me: how do you create a kinetic term for the electromagnetic field that is still gauge-invariant? One of the consequences of torsion is ...
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I lost a factor of two in the electromagnetic field tensor
I apologize for this simple question, but I lost a factor of 2 and can't find it anymore, so now I'm looking on the internet, perhaps one of you has some information about its whereabouts. :-)
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History of Electromagnetic Field Tensor
I'm curious to learn how people discovered that electric and magnetic fields could be nicely put into one simple tensor.
It's clear that the tensor provides many beautiful simplifications to the ...
