Wednesday, March 20, 2013

1303.4350 (E. Goulart et al.)

Disformal invariance of Maxwell's field equations    [PDF]

E. Goulart, F. T. Falciano
We show that Maxwell's electrodynamics in vacuum is invariant under active transformations of the metric. These metrics are related by disformal mappings induced by derivatives of the gauge vector $A_{\mu}$ such that the gauge symmetry is preserved. Our results generalize the well known conformal invariance of electrodynamics and characterize a new type of internal symmetry of the theory. The group structure associated with these transformations is also investigated in details.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.4350

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