A METRIC FOR AN EVANS-VIGIER FIELD

Citation
J. Argyris et al., A METRIC FOR AN EVANS-VIGIER FIELD, Foundations of physics letters, 11(2), 1998, pp. 141-163
Citations number
63
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
ISSN journal
08949875
Volume
11
Issue
2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
141 - 163
Database
ISI
SICI code
0894-9875(1998)11:2<141:AMFAEF>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
In this paper we present an example of a specific metric which geometr izes explicitly a light-like four-vector potential field (Evans-Vigier field). We define the concepts of 'semilocal' and 'complete' geometri zation and show that a light-like vector field has the same geometrica l structure as a gravitational Kerr field. With this background in min d we discuss a theoretical proposition that a rotating body generates, besides a special gravitational field, a magnetic-type gauge field wh ich might be identified with a geometrized Evans-Vigier field. We fina lly present a discussion which inform us that a classical Evans-Vigier field represents a novel type of field because we cannot identify it with any of the known electromagnetic fields.