Space-time metric from linear electrodynamics
Apr, 19993 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Lett.B 458 (1999) 466-470
e-Print:
- gr-qc/9904067 [gr-qc]
Report number:
- COLOGNE-THP-H-99-03
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Abstract: (Elsevier)
The Maxwell equations are formulated on an arbitrary (1+3)-dimensional manifold. Then, imposing a (constrained) linear constitutive relation between electromagnetic field ( E , B ) and excitation ( D , H ) , we derive the metric of spacetime therefrom.Note:
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- Electrodynamics
- Metric
- Axiomatics
- General relativity
- space-time
- Maxwell equation
- electromagnetic field
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