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The Effective Lorentzian and Teleparallel Spacetimes Generated by a Free Electromagnetic Field
In this paper we show that a free electromagnetic field living in Minkowski
spacetime generates an effective Weitzenbock or an effective Lorentzian
spacetime whose properties aredetermined in details. These results are possible
because we found using the Clifford bundle formalism the noticeable result that
the energy-momentum densities of a free electromagnetic field are sources of
the Hodge duals of exact 2-form fields which satisfy Maxwell like equations.Comment: A missing term in Eq.(14) has been inserted and some misprints
correcte
A Maxwell Like Formulation of Gravitational Theory in Minkowski Spacetime
In this paper using the Clifford bundle formalism a Lagrangian theory of the
Yang-Mills type (with a gauge fixing term and an auto interacting term) for the
gravitational field in Minkowski spacetime is presented. It is shown how two
simple hypothesis permit the interpretation of the formalism in terms of
effective Lorentzian or teleparallel geometries. In the case of a Lorentzian
geometry interpretation of the theory the field equations are shown to be
equivalent to Einstein's equations.Comment: This is a version of a paper published in Int. J. Mod. Phs. D 16(6),
1027-1041 (2007) where some misprints and typos have been corrected, some
references have been updated, a footnote has been added and some few
sentences have been rewritten to better explain the role of the (plastic)
deformation tensor
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