Electromagnetism and quantum theory

Solution of Electromagnetism Theory Problems

Maxwell equations are the basis of the theory of electromagnetic fields. In the stationary case they split into independent problems for electric and magnetic fields. For the electric field in conductive media electrical conductivity problem is formulated, and in insulators the problem of electrostatics is formulated. Equations for stationary problems are of elliptic type, whereas in general th...

Basic Laws and Principles of Quantum Electromagnetism

Abelian BF -Theory and Spherically Symmetric Electromagnetism

Three different methods to quantize the spherically symmetric sector of electromagnetism are presented: First, it is shown that this sector is equivalent to Abelian BF -theory in four spacetime dimensions with suitable boundary conditions. This theory, in turn, is quantized by both a reduced phase space quantization and a spin network quantization. Finally, the outcome is compared with the resu...

Electromagnetism in a Nonsymmetric Theory of Gravitation

In a previous work [1] a theory of gravitation based on a nonsymmetric metric was formulated (pure gravitation with no association of the antisymmetric part of the metric to the electromagnetic eld strength). The sources of the metric eld are the matter energymomentum tensor T and the matter fermionic particle number current density S . This is a conserved current with particle number fermionic...

Pfaff Systems Theory and the Unifications of Gravitation and Electromagnetism

We show in the framework of Pfaff systems theory, the functional dependences of the general analytic solutions of a suitable system of involutive differential equations describing the differences between the analytic solutions of the conformal and “Poincaré” Lie equations. Then we ascribe to the infinitesimal variations of the parametrizing functionals some physical meanings as the electromagne...