Narrow Results

In this paper, it has been proven that locally the inertial frames and gauge states of the electromagnetic field are equivalent. This proof is valid for Einstein–Maxwell theories in four-dimensional Lorentzian spacetimes. Theorems proved in a previous paper will be used. These theorems state that locally the group of electromagnetic gauge transformations is isomorphic to the local group of Lorentz transformations of a special set of tetrad vectors. The tetrad that locally and covariantly diagonalizes any non-null electromagnetic stress–energy tensor. There are in total two isomorphisms, one for each orthogonal plane of stress–energy eigenvectors. We discuss the opposite problem in this paper. What happens with local electromagnetic gauge when the test object under study is boosted by any mechanical means? We will prove that boosting matter is indistinguishable from introducing an appropriate local electromagnetic gauge transformation.

The new tetrads introduced previously for non-null electromagnetic fields in Einstein–Maxwell spacetimes enable a direct link to the local electromagnetic gauge group of transformations. Due to the peculiar elements in the construction of these new tetrads, a direct connection can be established between the local group of electromagnetic gauge transformations and local groups of tetrad transformations on two different local and orthogonal planes of eigenvectors of the Einstein–Maxwell stress–energy tensor. These tetrad vectors are gauge dependent. It is an interesting and relevant problem to study if there are local gauge transformations that can map on the timelike-spacelike plane, the timelike and the spacelike vectors into the intersection of the local light cone and the plane itself. How many of these local gauge transformations exist and how the mathematics and the geometry of these particular transformations play out. These local gauge transformations would be singular and it is important to identify them.

In this short note, we will prove in a few steps that the new tetrads introduced previously in Einstein–Maxwell four-dimensional Lorentzian spacetimes, where gravitational and non-null electromagnetic fields are present, contain both the necessary information to provide the gravitational field and the necessary information to provide the electromagnetic field as well. These new tools thus become grand unification objects.