Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2002-09-09
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
16 pages, 2 figures, "Topics in Mathematical Physics, General Relativity and Cosmology" conference (in honor of Jerzy Plebansk
Scientific paper
Electromagnetic wavelets are a family of 3x3 matrix fields W_z(x') parameterized by complex spacetime points z=x+iy with y timelike. They are translates of a \sl basic \rm wavelet W(z) holomorphic in the future-oriented union T of the forward and backward tubes. Applied to a complex polarization vector p (representing electric and magnetic dipole moments), W(z) gives an anti-selfdual solution W(z)p of Maxwell's equations derived from a selfdual Hertz potential Z(z)=-iS(z)p, where S is the \sl Synge function \rm acting as a Whittaker-like scalar Hertz potential. Resolutions of unity exist giving representations of sourceless electromagnetic fields as superpositions of wavelets. With the choice of a branch cut, S(z) splits into a difference of retarded and advanced \sl pulsed beams \rm whose limits as y\to 0 give the propagators of the wave equation. This yields a similar splitting of the wavelets and leads to their complete physical interpretation as EM pulsed beams absorbed and emitted by a \sl disk source \rm D(y) representing the branch cut. The choice of y determines the beam's orientation, collimation and duration, giving beams as sharp and pulses as short as desired. The sources are computed as spacetime distributions of electric and magnetic dipoles supported on D(y). The wavelet representation of sourceless electromagnetic fields now splits into representations with advanced and retarded sources. These representations are the electromagnetic counterpart of relativistic coherent-state representations previously derived for massive Klein-Gordon and Dirac particles.
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