1108.5094 (Paul Mansfield)

Faraday's Lines of Force as Strings: from Gauss' Law to the Arrow of
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Paul Mansfield

We reformulate classical electromagnetism as the statistical mechanics of
lines of electric flux with dynamics described by the string action in four
dimensions. The retarded solution to Maxwell's equations emerges naturally as
an average over a microcanonical ensemble of these lines of force at high
temperature.

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