On Frame-Invariance in Electrodynamics
Year: 2012
Type: preprint
Abstract: The Faraday and Ampere-Maxwell laws of electrodynamics in space-time manifold are formulated in terms of differential forms and exterior and Lie derivatives. Due to their natural behavior with respect to push-pull operations, these geometric objects are the suitable tools to deal with the space-time observer split of the events manifold and with frame-invariance properties. Frame-invariance is investigated in complete generality, referring to any automorphic transformation in space-time, in accord with the spirit of general relativity. A main result of the new geometric theory is the assessment of frame-invariance of space-time electromagnetic differential forms and induction laws and of their spatial counterparts under any change of frame. This target is reached by a suitable extension of the formula governing the correspondence between space-time and spatial differential forms in electrodynamics to take relative motions in due account. The result modifies the statement made by Einstein in the 1905 paper on the relativity principle, and reproposed in the subsequent literature, and advocates the need for a revision of the theoretical framework of electrodynamics.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Author: Giovanni Romano
Institution: University of Naples Federico II
Language: English
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1908367435