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The classical electromagnetic and gravitomagnetic fields in the vacuum, in (3+2) dimensions, described by the Maxwell-Nordstrom equations, are quantized. These equations are rederived from the field tensor which follows from a five-dimensional form of the Dirac equation. The electromagnetic field depends on the customary time t, and the hypothetical gravitomagnetic field depends on the second time variable u. The total field energy is identified with the component T44 of the five-dimensional energy-stress tensor of the electromagnetic and gravitomagnetic fields. In the ground state, the electromagnetic field and the gravitomagnetic field energies cancel out. The quanta of the gravitomagnetic field have spin 1.
In this article, we quantize the Maxwell (massless spin one) de Sitter field in a conformally invariant gauge. This quantization is invariant under the SO$_0(2,4)$ group and consequently under the de Sitter group. We obtain a new de Sitter invariant two-points function which is very simple. Our method relies on the one hand on a geometrical point of view which uses the realization of Minkowski, de Sitter and anti-de Sitter spaces as intersections of the null cone in $setR^6$ and a moving plane, and on the other hand on a canonical quantization scheme of the Gupta-Bleuler type.
We study the fall-off behaviour of test electromagnetic fields in higher dimensions as one approaches infinity along a congruence of expanding null geodesics. The considered backgrounds are Einstein spacetimes including, in particular, (asymptotically) flat and (anti-)de Sitter spacetimes. Various possible boundary conditions result in different characteristic fall-offs, in which the leading component can be of any algebraic type (N, II or G). In particular, the peeling-off of radiative fields F=Nr^{1-n/2}+Gr^{-n/2}+... differs from the standard four-dimensional one (instead it qualitatively resembles the recently determined behaviour of the Weyl tensor in higher dimensions). General p-form fields are also briefly discussed. In even n dimensions, the special case p=n/2 displays unique properties and peels off in the standard way as F=Nr^{1-n/2}+IIr^{-n/2}+.... A few explicit examples are mentioned.
Geometrical symmetry in a spacetime can generate test solutions to the Maxwell equation. We demonstrate that the source-free Maxwell equation is satisfied by any generator of spacetime self-similarity---a proper homothetic vector---identified with a vector potential of the Maxwell theory. The test fields obtained in this way share the scale symmetry of the background.
We obtain a full characterization of Einstein-Maxwell $p$-form solutions $(boldsymbol{g},boldsymbol{F})$ in $D$-dimensions for which all higher-order corrections vanish identically. These thus simultaneously solve a large class of Lagrangian theories including both modified gravities and (possibly non-minimally coupled) modified electrodynamics. Specifically, both $boldsymbol{g}$ and $boldsymbol{F}$ are fields with vanishing scalar invariants and further satisfy two simple tensorial conditions. They describe a family of gravitational and electromagnetic plane-fronted waves of the Kundt class and of Weyl type III (or more special). The local form of $(boldsymbol{g},boldsymbol{F})$ and a few examples are also provided.
(abbreviated) We study quantized solutions of WdW equation describing a closed FRW universe with a $Lambda $ term and a set of massless scalar fields. We show that when $Lambda ll 1$ in the natural units and the standard $in$-vacuum state is considered, either wavefunction of the universe, $Psi$, or its derivative with respect to the scale factor, $a$, behave as random quasi-classical fields at sufficiently large values of $a$, when $1 ll a ll e^{{2over 3Lambda}}$ or $a gg e^{{2over 3Lambda}}$, respectively. Statistical r.m.s value of the wavefunction is proportional to the Hartle-Hawking wavefunction for a closed universe with a $Lambda $ term. Alternatively, the behaviour of our system at large values of $a$ can be described in terms of a density matrix corresponding to a mixed state, which is directly determined by statistical properties of $Psi$. It gives a non-trivial probability distribution over field velocities. We suppose that a similar behaviour of $Psi$ can be found in all models exhibiting copious production of excitations with respect to $out$-vacuum state associated with classical trajectories at large values of $a$. Thus, the third quantization procedure may provide a boundary condition for classical solutions of WdW equation.