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Could the metric be a tensor product of a 4-vector with itself?
I am really keen on the idea of geometrizing all of physics using the spacetime manifold, so I was happy to find this paper:
https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1956/1/012017
As I understand it, they ...
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path of light pulse: from EM in static background to massless particle in curved space-time
Is there a way to 'derive' the equation of massless particle geodesics in curved space-time starting from the field equations of electromagnetism in curved space-time?
I'm imagining something along ...
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Has a metric formulation of electromagnetism ever been attempted? [duplicate]
I understand that electromagnetic fields carry energy, and this energy curves spacetime gravitationally. That's not my question.
I'm asking if anyone has tried to formulate electromagnetism in such ...
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Maxwell's equations in curved spacetime
I know that we can write Maxwell's equations in the covariant form, and this covariant form can be considered as a generalization of these equations in curved spacetime if we replace ordinary ...
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