Neutral current filament in a boosted frame
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For an ideal infinite filament with zero line charge density and current in a laboratory frame, the line-integrated four-current is in temporal/axial components. An axial boost of speed gives the title density and current. The laboratory magnetic field therefore becomes both an electric field from and a magnetic field from . Charge neutrality is frame-dependent for a current-carrying system. A model built from oppositely charged moving and resting populations makes this result explicit; the charge of each fixed material particle set remains invariant.
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