There are several choices of electromagnetic four-potential that lead to the same physics.
E.g. thinking about the electric potential alone, you could set the zero anywhere, and everything would remain be the same.
The Lorentz gauge is just one such choice. It is however a very popular one, because it is also manifestly Lorentz invariant.
Alternative to the Lorentz gauge, but less used in general as it is not as nice for relativity invariance.

Ancestors (8)

  1. Electromagnetic four-potential
  2. Maxwell's equations
  3. Electromagnetism
  4. Particle physics
  5. Physics
  6. Natural science
  7. Science
  8. Home

Synonyms (1)

View article source

Discussion (0)

New discussion

There are no discussions about this article yet.

Articles by others on the same topic (0)

There are currently no matching articles.
See all articles in the same topic Create my own version