Published March 13, 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

Galilean equations for massless fields

  • 1. Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Na Slovance 2, 182 21 Prague (Czech Republic)
  • 2. Institute of Mathematics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 3 Tereshchenkivs'ka Street, Kyiv-4, Ukraine, 01601 (Ukraine)

Description

Galilei-invariant equations for massless fields are obtained via contractions of relativistic wave equations. It is shown that the collection of non-equivalent Galilei-invariant wave equations for massless fields with spin equal to 1 and 0 is very rich and corresponds to various contractions of the representations of the Lorentz group to those of the Galilei ones. It describes many physically consistent systems, e.g., those of electromagnetic fields in various media or Galilean Chern-Simons models. Finally, classification of all linear and a big group of nonlinear Galilei-invariant equations for massless fields is presented

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1751-8113/42/10/105207

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1088/1751-8113/42/10/105207;
PII
S1751-8113(09)94815-6;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Physics. A, Mathematical and Theoretical (Online)
Journal Volume
42
Journal Issue
10
Journal Page Range
[19 p.]
ISSN
1751-8121