Backwards on Minkowski's road. from 4D to 3D Maxwellian electromagnetism

Annalen der Physik (Leipzig)

Volumn 17, Issue 9-10, 2008, Pages 769-786

  Itin, Y ^a,b   Friedman, Y ^a  

^a JERUSALEM COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Classical electrodynamics; Lenz's rule; Metamaterials; Metric of spacetime; Positivity of energy; Signature of metric

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETISM; LORENTZ FORCE; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CLASSICAL ELECTRODYNAMICS; LENZ'S RULE; METAMATERIALS; METRIC OF SPACETIME; POSITIVITY OF ENERGY; SIGNATURE OF METRIC;

ELECTRODYNAMICS;

EID: 54949156906     PISSN: 00033804     EISSN: 15213889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/andp.200810317     Document Type: Article

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