Nonbirefringence conditions for spacetime

Yakov Itin
Phys. Rev. D 72, 087502 – Published 14 October 2005

Abstract

Within the axiomatic premetric approach to classical electrodynamics, we derive under which covariant conditions the quartic Fresnel surface represents a unique light cone without birefringence in vacuum.

  • Received 21 August 2005

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.72.087502

©2005 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Yakov Itin*

  • Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

  • *Electronic address: itin@math.huji.ac.il

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Vol. 72, Iss. 8 — 15 October 2005

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