Koch, B. (2025). Padmanabhan’s boundary variational principle for electrodynamics and Yang-Mills theory. International Journal of Modern Physics D, 34(07n08), Article 2550032. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218271825500324
electrodynamics; Variational principle; Yang-Mills theory
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Abstract:
In this paper, we revisit a variational principle introduced by Padmanabhan for describing gravitation using a field action composed solely of a boundary term. We demonstrate that this procedure can also be applied to derive Maxwell's and Yang-Mills equations.
