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Revista mexicana de física E

Print version ISSN 1870-3542

Rev. mex. fís. E vol.52 n.1 México Jun. 2006

 

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Maxwell equations in Lorentz covariant integral form

 

E. Ley Koo

 

Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 20-364, 01000 México D.F., México.

 

Recibido el 1 de septiembre de 2005;
Aceptado el 21 de febrero de 2006.

 

Abstract

Most textbooks of electromagnetism give comparable weights to the presentation of Maxwell equations in their integral and differential forms. The same books, when dealing with the Lorentz covariance of the Maxwell equations, limit themselves to the discussion of their differential forms, and make no reference to their integral forms. Such a gap in the didactic literature is bridged in this paper by explicitly constructing the latter via the integration of the former, for the source-dependent and source-independent cases, over a four-vector and a rank-3 tensor hypersurfaces, respectively.

Keywords: Electromagnetismo; Maxwell equations; integral and differential forms; standard and Lorentz-covariant forms.

 

Resumen

La mayoría de los textos de electromagnetismo dan pesos comparables a la presentación de las ecuaciones de Maxwell en sus formas integrales y diferenciales. Los mismos libros, al tratar la covariancia de Lorentz de las ecuaciones de Maxwell, se limitan a la discusión de sus formas diferenciales, y no hacen referencia a sus formas integrales. Tal laguna en la literatura didáctica se elimina en este artículo, construyendo explícitamente las últimas por medio de la integración de las primeras, para los casos dependientes e independientes de las fuentes, sobre hipersuperficies cuadrivectorial y tensorial de rango 3, respectivamente.

Descriptores: Electromgnétismo; ecuaciones de Maxwell; formas integrales y diferenciales; formas estándar y covariantes de Lorentz.

 

PACS: 41.20; 03.30+p

 

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