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Excluded interior flux is not a global source law

Physical scope

An ideal source-free vacuum Maxwell field on the punctured spatial region R^3 minus the origin with a specified nonzero flux parameter. The example gives no full-space magnetic-charge law, no empirical observation, and no smooth source-free extension through the excluded point.

Example

Let I be a nonempty open time interval and Ω=R3∖{0} in the fixed SI laboratory chart. Fix a nonzero flux parameter Φ with units Wb and a length a=1 m. Put r=(x12+x22+x32)1/2 and define the smooth static fields E=0 and B=(Φ/(4π))(x1,x2,x3)/r3 on I×Ω. Set P=M=0 and total charge and current densities ρ=0 and J=0 there. Let T be the tetrahedron with vertices a(1,1,1), a(1,−1,−1), a(−1,1,−1), and a(−1,−1,1). Label these vertices v0,v1,v2,v3 in the displayed order. For 0≤i≤3, let σi:Δ2→R3 be the affine map with ordered vertices [v0,…,v^i,…,v3], and put qa(p)=ap/∥p∥ for p≠0. Set z=∑i=03(−1)i+1(qa∘σi). Then z is a finite outward-oriented smooth singular 2-cycle on the sphere of radius a. For each t∈I, write zt for its image in the time slice under x↦(t,x). The exterior field satisfies the source-free vacuum Maxwell equations and has cycle flux Φz(t)=∫ztF=Φ, so its field-strength 2-form has no global potential on I×Ω. This exterior flux does not imply a magnetic charge in the full-space Maxwell model: any smooth full-space divergence-free extension agreeing on the sphere of radius a would have zero flux there, a contradiction.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: The nonzero Wb parameter, punctured region, static fields, zero material and source fields, tetrahedron, face simplices, radial map, and cycle in the Example.

[A1]

The physical setup is restricted to Ω=R3∖{0}; no value or source is asserted at the excluded origin.

[F1]

Excitation and free-current forms defines F=B−dt∧E, the free-current form from ρf,Jf, and cycle flux by pullback Riemann integrals on finite smooth singular cycles.

[F2]

Metric-free Maxwell equations and metric-dependent vacuum closure identifies dF = 0 and dG = J with the macroscopic Maxwell equations and gives the vacuum closure when P = M = 0.

[F3]

Smooth singular chain and cochain complexes defines finite smooth singular chains and signed boundaries. Standard orientation of the affine simplex fixes the outward face signs, and Integral of a form over a smooth singular simplex fixes the pullback integral for smooth forms.

[F4]

The local coordinate formula for the exterior derivative gives the component formula for smooth forms. Divergence and curl of a C1 vector field fixes div⁡B=∑i∂iBi and curl⁡B by the usual positively oriented component formula.

[F6]

Clairaut--Schwarz theorem for continuous second partial derivatives says that the second coordinate derivatives of the smooth scalar r−1 commute.

[F8]

Computing form integrals by finite parametrizations identifies the integral over a compact oriented surface with the sum over finitely many orientation-preserving patches with disjoint interiors and closures covering it.

[F9]

Local two-form potentials and global obstruction says a smooth closed 2-form with nonzero period on a finite smooth singular 2-cycle has no global smooth 1-form potential.

[F10]

Poincare lemma for differential forms on star shaped domains says every smooth closed positive-degree form on a star-shaped open Euclidean domain is exact. Stokes theorem for smooth singular chains gives integral_z dA = integral_partial-z A.

[F11]

Change of variables for an injective C1 map on a compact Jordan set gives the signed pullback integral under an affine parameter transposition: its determinant is −1, so the integral of a pulled-back 2-form changes sign.

[F12]

Changing a bounded integrand on a content-zero set does not change its Riemann integral identifies integrals of bounded functions differing only on a content-zero set. In particular, compact-simplex integrals equal their interior integrals: its finitely many straight boundary edges have content zero.

Verification

Given: The setup and cycle in the Example, with Phi nonzero.

1.1A1F2F4F5F6givenalgebra

Put C=Φ/(4π). On r>0, F=Cβ is the smooth static magnetic 2-form, where β=(x1dx2∧dx3+x2dx3∧dx1+x3dx1∧dx2)/r3. By [F4], dβ=(∑i∂i(xir−3))vol3. By [F5], ∂i(xir−3)=r−3−3xi2r−5, so their sum is 3r−3−3r2r−5=0. Also, B=−C∇(r−1), so curl⁡B=0 by [F6]. With E=0, P=M=0, and ρ=J=0, all four adopted vacuum Maxwell equations hold on Ω; [F2] therefore gives dF=0 and dG=0 there.

1.2A1F3givenalgebra

The origin is the barycenter of the four tetrahedron vertices, hence lies strictly inside T, and each face lies in a plane n⋅p=h with outward unit normal n and h>0. Each face avoids the origin, so qa is smooth on a neighborhood of it. Convexity and 0 in the interior imply each ray from 0 meets the boundary of T once; therefore qa maps the four face interiors bijectively onto disjoint open patches of the radius-a sphere whose closures cover that sphere. On a face patch, the inverse radial map is x↦hx/(n⋅x), which is smooth because n⋅x>0 there; thus each face restriction is a diffeomorphism. For face tangent vectors v,w in the outward orientation, put u=p/∥p∥. Then D(qa)p(v)=(a/∥p∥)(v−(u⋅v)u) and u⋅(D(qa)p(v)×D(qa)p(w))=(a2/∥p∥3)p⋅(v×w)>0, because p has positive normal component hn. The ordered tetrahedron has determinant det⁡(v1−v0,v2−v0,v3−v0)=−16a3, so its positive outward boundary has coefficients εi=(−1)i+1 on the ordered faces σi. The radial map preserves their induced outward orientations by the preceding calculation. For i<j, the edge omitting vi,vj occurs with coefficient (−1)i+1(−1)j−1=(−1)i+j from face i and (−1)j+1(−1)i=(−1)i+j+1 from face j. Both edge maps list the two surviving vertices in the same order, so their radial composites are identical maps with opposite coefficients. Thus [F3] gives ∂z=0.

2.1F1F7F8F11F12step 1.2givenalgebra

The scaling map ψa:S2→Sa2, ψa(u)=au, satisfies ψa∗(β∣Sa2)=ω, since the numerator and denominator in β both scale by a3. For each i, use qa∘σi if εi=1, and precompose it with the affine transposition r(u1,u2)=(u2,u1) of Δ2 if εi=−1. The resulting four parametrizations are orientation-preserving diffeomorphisms on the open simplex interiors onto the disjoint patches of step 1.2, with closures covering the compact sphere. They extend smoothly near the closed parameter simplex into the sphere because their affine faces avoid the origin. By [F11], transposition negates the form integral, so each new integral is εi∫qa∘σiβ. By [F12] these compact parameter integrals equal the interior integrals in [F8]. Hence [F8] applies, and the compact oriented surface integral is the one evaluated in [F7]. Hence ∫zβ=∫Sa2β=∫S2ω=4π, so the cycle flux of F is Φz(t)=C∫zβ=Φ for every t.

3.1F1F3F9step 1.1step 2.1

The embedded cycle zt is a finite smooth singular 2-cycle in I×Ω. Its inclusion pullback of F is Cβ, which is smooth and closed on Ω by step 1.1 and has nonzero period Φ by step 2.1. Therefore F is a smooth closed 2-form on I×Ω with nonzero period on zt. Applying [F9] shows that no globally defined smooth 1-form A on I×Ω satisfies dA=F.

4.1A1F4F10step 1.2step 2.1∎

Suppose a smooth divergence-free magnetic field on R3 agreed with B on Sa2. Its spatial 2-form β~=B~1dx2∧dx3+B~2dx3∧dx1+B~3dx1∧dx2 would be smooth and closed by [F4], and would agree with Cβ on Sa2. Since R3 is star-shaped, [F10] gives β~=dA for a global smooth 1-form A. Stokes and ∂z=0 from step 1.2 then give ∫zβ~=∫∂zA=0, while step 2.1 gives ∫zβ~=4πC=Φ≠0. This contradiction excludes a smooth divergence-free full-space extension; it does not turn the exterior field into a magnetic-charge source law.

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