Maxwell's Equations in Curved Spacetime - The Electromagnetic Potential

The Electromagnetic Potential

The electromagnetic potential is a covariant vector, Aα which is the undefined primitive of electromagnetism. As a covariant vector, its rule for transforming from one coordinate system to another is

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