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Foreword with a table of contents for Special IJMPD Issue on Spacetime Structure and Electrodynamics

Wei-Tou Ni·Sperello di Serego Alighieri·Jonathan Kaufman·Brian Keating
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In the last two decades we have seen important mutual stimulations between the community working on electrodynamics of continuous media and the community working on spacetime structure. This is highlighted by the publication of two important monographs from two communities: Foundations of Classical Electrodynamics by F. W. Hehl and Yu. N. Obukhov (Birkh\"auser, Boston 2003) and Differential Forms in Electromagnetics by I. V. Lindell (IEEE Press-Wiley, Piscataway, NJ 2004; see also a new book "Multiforms, Dyadics, and Electromagnetic Media" by the same author in 2015). Starting around 1960, magnetoelectric effects and magnetoelectric media have been a focus of study. Somewhat later, the constitutive tensor density framework was used to construct spacetime structure theoretically and empirically. Earlier, in putting Maxwell equations into a form compatible with general relativity, Einstein noticed that the Maxwell equations can be formulated in a form independent of the metric gravitational potential in 1916; only the constitutive tensor density depends on the metric. This was followed by further stimulating and clarifying works of Weyl in 1918, Murnaghan in 1921, Kottler in 1922 and Cartan in 1923. Year 2016 is the centennial of the start of this historical development. International Journal of Modern Physics D of World Scientific is celebrating the occasion by publishing this special issue on Spacetime Structure and Electrodynamics. We have invited researchers to submit original research articles that would contribute to a better understanding of the phenomena inherent to spacetime structure and electrodynamic media.

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Wei-Tou Ni, Sperello di Serego Alighieri, Jonathan Kaufman, Brian Keating. 2016-11-03. Foreword with a table of contents for Special IJMPD Issue on Spacetime Structure and Electrodynamics. https://doi.org/10.1142/s0218271816020016

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