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Classes of Maxwell Spaces Admitting Translations

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A Maxwell space is a pair (M 4, F), where M 4 is a four-dimensional Minkowski space or a domain in it and F is a closed exterior differential 2-form on M 4. We describe classes of Maxwell spaces admitting translation groups of dimension 1–4.

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Translated from Sovremennaya Matematika i Ee Prilozheniya (Contemporary Mathematics and Its Applications), Vol. 10, Suzdal Conference-4, 2003.

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Parinov, M.A. Classes of Maxwell Spaces Admitting Translations. J Math Sci 129, 3642–3648 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10958-005-0303-z

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