The covariant description of electromagnetically polarizable media

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 361, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 190-193

  Dereli, T ^a   Gratus, J ^b   Tucker, R W ^b  

^a KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Action principles; Constitutive relations; Covariant electromagnetism; Magneto electric media; Maxwell's equations; Stress energy momentum tensor

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; TENSORS;

ACTION PRINCIPLES; COHERENT UNDERSTANDING; CONSTITUTIVE RELATIONS; COVARIANT; COVARIANT DESCRIPTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS; STRESS ENERGIES; VARIATIONAL FRAMEWORK;

MOMENTUM;

EID: 33845196728     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2006.10.060     Document Type: Article

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