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Faraday's Lines of Force as Strings: from Gauss' Law to the Arrow of Time

Mansfield, Paul

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Paul Mansfield



Abstract

We reformulate classical electromagnetism as the statistical mechanics of lines of electric flux with dynamics described by the string action in four dimensions. The retarded solution to Maxwell’s equations emerges naturally as an average over a microcanonical ensemble of these lines of force at high temperature.

Citation

Mansfield, P. (2012). Faraday's Lines of Force as Strings: from Gauss' Law to the Arrow of Time. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2012(10), Article 149. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep10%282012%29149

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Sep 28, 2012
Publication Date Oct 23, 2012
Deposit Date Oct 24, 2012
Publicly Available Date Jun 17, 2015
Journal Journal of High Energy Physics
Print ISSN 1126-6708
Publisher Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 2012
Issue 10
Article Number 149
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep10%282012%29149
Keywords Field theories in lower dimensions, Bosonic strings.
Related Public URLs http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.5094

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