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Behavior of zero rest-mass fields including gravitation in the vicinity of zeros

J. Audretsch
(
- Queen Elizabeth Coll.
)

1973

13 pages

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Annals Phys. 78 (1973) 284-296

DOI:

10.1016/0003-4916(73)90011-0

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For free nonradiation zero rest-mass fields, as for example the nonnull Maxwell and the Weyl tensor fields in vacuum, a uniform treatment of the behavior of the principal null vectors in the vicinity of boundary zeros is given. It is shown that a boundary zero of a field is a singular point of at least one of its principal null vectors. In the special case of a Maxwell field for which the Poynting three-vector vanishes for a certain observer-field, a boundary zero of the Maxwell field is a singular point of the corresponding electric and magnetic fields. The results are valid in flat and curved spacetimes independently of whether the zero rest-mass fields act as source of the spacetime curvature or not.

field theory: spinor
spinor: field theory
gravitation
electromagnetic: field

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