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

Mansfield, Paul

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
• Electronic ISSN: 1029-8479
• 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.
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1472561
• Related Public URLs: http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.5094