Can the Lorenz-gauge potentials be considered physical quantities?

Details Can the Lorenz-gauge potentials be considered physical quantities? Can the Lorenz-gauge potentials be considered physical quantities?

2010-12-06

arxiv.org/abs/1012.1063v1

Eur. J. Phys. 31, 307-315 (2010)

Physics

Classical Physics

12 pages

Scientific paper

10.1088/0143-0807/31/2/008

Two results support the idea that the scalar and vector potentials in the Lorenz gauge can be considered to be physical quantities: (i) they separately satisfy the properties of causality and propagation at the speed of light and not imply spurious terms and (ii) they can naturally be written in a manifestly covariant form. In this paper we introduce expressions for the Lorenz-gauge potentials at the present time in terms of electric and magnetic fields at the retarded time. These expressions provide a third result in favor of a physical interpretation of the Lorenz-gauge potentials: (iii) they can be regarded as causal effects of the observed electric and magnetic fields.

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