2009, Vol.12, No.3, pp.232-250
In the paper, the known possibility to consider the (vacuum)
Maxwell equations in a curved space-time as Maxwell equations in
flat space-time (Gordon W., Mandel'stam L.I., Tamm I.E.) as taken in
an effective media the properties of which are determined by
metrical structure of the initial curved model
is studied
is 4-rank
tensor;
metrical structure of the
curved space-time generates effective constitutive
equations for electromagnetic fields:
the form of four symmetrical tensors
is
found explicitly for general case of an arbitrary Riemannian
space-time geometry
.
The main peculiarity of the geometrical generating for
effective electromagnetic medias characteristics consists in the
following: four tensors
are not independent and
obey some additional constraints between them. Several, the most
simple examples are specified in detail: it is given geometrical
modeling of the anisotropic media (magnetic crystals) and the
geometrical modeling of a uniform media in moving reference frame
in the background of Minkowski electrodynamics - the latter is
realized trough the use of a non-diagonal metrical tensor
determined by 4-vector velocity of the moving uniform media
. Also the effective material equations generated by geometry of
space of constant curvature (Lobachevsky and Riemann models) are
determined. General problem of geometrical transforming arbitrary
(linear) material equations, given by
, has been studied -
corresponding formulas have been produced.
Key words:
Maxwell equations, media, constitutive relations,
Riemannian geometry
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