To consider the electromagnetic field as fundamental, and the metric only as a subsidiary field

Foundations of Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2007-2025

  Hehl, Friedrich W ^a,b   Obukhov, Yuri N ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Classical electrodynamics; Differential forms; Electric magnetic reciprocity; Light cone; Metric; Premetric axiomatics

Indexed keywords

EID: 29144525590     PISSN: 00159018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10701-005-8659-y     Document Type: Article

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