Comment on ‘Covariant formulation of electrodynamics in isotropic media’

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European Journal of Physics Pub Date : 2023-12-13 DOI:10.1088/1361-6404/ad0de9

Jerrold Franklin

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Abstract

A recent paper Pal (2022 Eur. J. Phys. 43 015204) puts into covariant form an extension of relativistic classical electromagnetism from free space to a linearly polarizable medium. The paper is based on the assumption that the relativistic tensor, F ^μ
ν, which is a tensor in free space, will also be a tensor in a linear medium. Pal constructs a proposed covariant formulation that gives

Fμν

for a medium moving with constant velocity, v, in terms of F ^μ
ν for the medium at rest. However, although F ^μ
ν has been proven to be a relativistic tensor in free space, we show that it is not a tensor in a linear medium. This means that the covariant extension proposed by Pal fails.

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最近的一篇论文 Pal (2022 Eur. J. Phys.43 015204) 以共变形式将相对论经典电磁学从自由空间扩展到线性可极化介质。论文基于这样一个假设：相对论张量 Fμν 在自由空间中是一个张量，在线性介质中也是一个张量。Pal 提出了一种协变公式，用静止介质的 Fμν 来表示以恒定速度 v 运动的介质的 Fμν。然而，尽管 Fμν 已被证明是自由空间中的相对论张量，但我们证明它在线性介质中并不是张量。这意味着帕尔提出的协变扩展失败了。

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European Journal of Physics 物理-物理：综合

CiteScore

1.70

自引率

28.60%

发文量

128

审稿时长

3-8 weeks

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