Electromagnetic energy conservation with complex octonions

Authors : Mustafa Emre KANSU, Murat TANIŞLI and Süleyman DEMİR

Pages : 438-445

View : 12 | Download : 7

Publication Date : 0000-00-00

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Octonions are the eight dimensional hypercomplex numbers that form a noncommutative and nonassociative division algebra. In this study, a general framework for the real, complex octonions and their algebra are provided by using the Cayley-Dickson multiplication rule between the octonionic basis elements. Maxwell`s equations without sources are shown in Gauss units in dimensionless form. The local energy conservation equation, which has been previously defined in a complexified quaternionic form, is similarly rearranged for isotropic media by using the complex octonions. As a result, the terms of density and flow of electromagnetic energy are attained.
Keywords : Octonion, Maxwell`s equations, electromagnetic energy, Poynting vector