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Hodge decomposition in Minkowski space

This question is motivated by the physical description of magnetic monopoles. I will give the motivation, but you can also jump to the last section. Let us recall Maxwell’s equations: Given a semi-...
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Poynting vector and differential forms

It is well known that electromagnetic field is a 2-form and Maxwell's equation can be reformulated in language of differential forms. What is the Poynting vector in this language?
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Decomposition of a bivector of a Lorentzian manifold [closed]

In the case of the $(1, -1, -1, -1)$ metric, a bivector (or a 2-form) $F$ decomposes uniquely as the sum of two orthogonal simple bivectors if $F^2 \ne 0$. I have the impression that it is very little ...
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Why is the integral of the tautological 1-form equal to the action?

I am having a hard time to understand why the integral of the tautological 1-form is the action of the system. The tautological one form is defined by : \begin{align} \theta_{(q,p)} : T_{(q,p)}T^*Q &...
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