Abstract
Usually the electromagnetic field is naively thought as given by six independent quantities E and B. However in chapter 2 the field was presented as dependent on a four-component vector potential. In this chapter a different approach is formulated, in which electromagnetic field is determined by two scalar complex functions. This approach will serve as a starting point for the following variational analysis given in the next chapter, where the electromagnetic field is shown to depend only on a single complex function.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Advances In Classical Field Theory |
Pages | 55-85 |
Number of pages | 31 |
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State | Published - 2011 |