Space-time metric from linear electrodynamics

Apr, 1999
3 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 458 (1999) 466-470
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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.
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  • Electrodynamics
  • Metric
  • Axiomatics
  • General relativity
  • space-time
  • Maxwell equation
  • electromagnetic field