Thursday, 27 November 2014

electromagnetism - The definition of the Lorenz gauge condition


The inner product of two vectors in space-time is:


(x1,y1,z1,t1)(x2,y2,z2,t2)=x1x2+y1y2+z1z2t1t2


So


(x,y,z,1ct)(A1,A2,A3,ϕ)=div(A)1cϕt


is Lorentz invariant, where A=(A1,A2,A3). But the [Lorenz gauge condition] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenz_gauge_condition) is defined by div(A)+1/c tϕ=0. Why has the minus changed into plus? So there is apparently no longer invariance.




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