Do electromagnetic waves always propagate along null geodesics?

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/aa8b48zbMath1380.83065arXiv1608.06572OpenAlexW3103107858MaRDI QIDQ4603096

Sergio A. Hojman, Felipe A. Asenjo

Publication date: 19 February 2018

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.06572

zbMATH Keywords

electromagnetic wavescurved spacetimenon-null geodesics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Einstein-Maxwell equations (83C22)

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