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Metric Independence of Vacuum and Force-Free Electromagnetic Fields

Metric Independence of Vacuum and Force-Free Electromagnetic Fields

Electromagnetic fields which solve the vacuum Maxwell equations in one spacetime are well known to also be solutions in all spacetimes with conformally related metrics. This provides a sense in which electromagnetism alone cannot be used to measure certain aspects of geometry. We show that there is actually much more …