Gauge invariance Maxwell field

Invariance of the fields with respect to changes in potential is known as gauge invariance. It is used to simplify Maxwell s equations in regions where there is no free charge. In this case ip itself is a solution of the wave equation, so that it can be adjusted to cancel and eliminate the scalar potential. This means that in (13) V A= 0 and, as before... 

A simple example in classical electrodynamics of what is now known as gauge invariance was introduced by Heaviside [3,4], who reduced the original electrodynamical equations of Maxwell to their present form. Therefore, these equations are more properly known as the Maxwell-Heaviside equations and, in the terminology of contemporary gauge field theory, are identifiable as U(l) Yang-Mills equations [15]. The subj ect of this chapter is 0(3) Yang-Mills gauge theory applied to electrodynamics and electroweak theory. 

As is well known in classical electromagnetics, the fields described by the Maxwell equations can be derived from a vector potential and a scalar potential. However, there are various forms that are possible, all giving the same fields. This is referred to as gauge invariance. In making measurements at some point... 

In classical electrodynamics, the field equations for the Maxwell field A/( depend only on the antisymmetric tensor which is invariant under a gauge transformation A/l A/l + ticduxix), where x is an arbitrary scalar field in space-time. Thus the vector field A/( is not completely determined by the theory. It is customary to impose an auxiliary gauge condition, such as 9/x/Fx = 0, in order to simplify the field equations. In the presence of an externally determined electric current density 4-vector j11, the Maxwell Lagrangian density is... 

For the Maxwell field, the energy-momentum tensor Tfi(A) derived from Noether s theorem is unsymmetric, and not gauge invariant, in contrast to the symmetric stress tensor derived directly from Maxwell s equations [318], Consider the symmetric tensor 0 = T + AT, where... 

Applied to the potentials of the electromagnetic field the coordinate system is determined only to within an additive gradient, which is the well-known property of the vector potential of the Maxwell field. In common practice it is necessary to assume the gauge invariance, which appears naturally in projective relativity. 

This modified equation is just the Schrodinger equation that describes the interaction of a charged particle with the elctromagnetic field. This appearance of interaction with a field is known as the gauge principle. A vector field such as A, introduced to guarantee local phase invariance, is called a gauge field. The local invariance of Schrodinger s equation ensures that quantum mechanics does not conflict with Maxwell s field. 

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