Maxwell's theory on a post-Riemannian spacetime and the equivalence principle

Details Maxwell's theory on a post-Riemannian spacetime and the equivalence principle Maxwell's theory on a post-Riemannian spacetime and the equivalence principle

1996-07-10

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9607023v3

Class.Quant.Grav. 14 (1997) 1347-1356

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

9 pages, REVTeX, no figures; minor changes, version to be published in Class. Quantum Grav

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/14/5/033

The form of Maxwell's theory is well known in the framework of general relativity, a fact that is related to the applicability of the principle of equivalence to electromagnetic phenomena. We pose the question whether this form changes if torsion and/or nonmetricity fields are allowed for in spacetime. Starting from the conservation laws of electric charge and magnetic flux, we recognize that the Maxwell equations themselves remain the same, but the constitutive law must depend on the metric and, additionally, may depend on quantities related to torsion and/or nonmetricity. We illustrate our results by putting an electric charge on top of a spherically symmetric exact solution of the metric-affine gauge theory of gravity (comprising torsion and nonmetricity). All this is compared to the recent results of Vandyck.

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