2019/03/30 by Yuri N. Obukhov, Obukhov, Yuri N.
Physics and Astronomy · #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1904.00180
The basics of the premetric approach are discussed, including the essential details of the formalism and some of its beautiful consequences. We demonstrate how the classical electrodynamics can be developed without a metric in a quite straightforward way: Maxwell's equations, together with the general response law for material media, admit a consistent premetric formulation. Furthermore, we show that in relativistic theories of gravity, the premetric program leads to a better understanding of the interdependence between topological, affine, and metric concepts.