New knotted solutions of Maxwell's equations

Abstract

In this note we have further developed the study of topologically non-trivial solutions of vacuum electrodynamics. We have discovered a novel method of generating such solutions by applying conformal transformations with complex parameters on known solutions expressed in terms of Bateman's variables. This has enabled us to get a wide class of solutions from the basic configuration like constant electromagnetic fields and plane-waves. We have introduced a covariant formulation of the Bateman's construction and discussed the conserved charges associated with the conformal group as well as a set of four types of conserved helicities. We have also given a formulation in terms of quaternions. This led to a simple map between the electromagnetic knotted and linked solutions into flat connections of $SU(2)$ gauge theory. We have computed the corresponding CS charge in a class of solutions and it takes integer values.

arXiv commentversion accepted for publication in J. Phys. A. minor changes: references added, new figure added, typos corrected

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