Covariant Form of The Homogeneous Wave Equation
These relativistic equations can be written in contravariant form as
where the electromagnetic four-potential is
with the Lorenz gauge condition:
where
is the d'Alembertian operator. (The square box is not a typographical error; it is the correct symbol for this operator.)
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