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electromagnetism

Idea

Electromagnetism or electrodynamics is the gauge theory whose field is the electromagnetic field, see there for more details.

The corresponding quantum field theory is quantum electrodynamics.

Related concepts

• electromagnetic radiation

  • light

• magnetohydrodynamics

• Dirac charge quantization

• Einstein-Maxwell theory

• quantum field theory

  • gauge theory

    • classical electrodynamics

    • electromagnetism

    • Yang-Mills theory

    • electroweak field

  • higher U(1)-gauge theory

    • B-field

    • C-field