A connection approach to the Einstein-Maxwell field equations

DOI10.1007/BF00759283zbMath0413.53021MaRDI QIDQ598634

R. J. McKellar

Publication date: 1979

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

variational principleLagrangianconnectionelectromagnetismEinstein-Maxwell field equationsconcomitant techniques

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50) Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50) Linear and affine connections (53B05)

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Gravitation and electromagnetism as geometrical objects of a Riemann-Cartan spacetime structure

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