Published March 13, 2009
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Journal article
Galilean equations for massless fields
Creators
- 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/10.1088/1751-8113/42/10/105207Additional 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
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 40070898
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CLASSIFICATION; CONTRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; LORENTZ GROUPS; NONLINEAR PROBLEMS; RELATIVISTIC RANGE; SPIN; WAVE EQUATIONS
- Descriptors DEC
- ANGULAR MOMENTUM; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ENERGY RANGE; EQUATIONS; LIE GROUPS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; POINCARE GROUPS; SYMMETRY GROUPS