ON THE EQUIVALENCE OF THE MASSLESS DKP EQUATION AND THE MAXWELL EQUATIONS IN THE SHUWER

Abstract

In this paper, a general relativistic wave equation is written to deal with electromagnetic waves in the background of the Shuwer. We obtain the exact form of this equation in a second-order form. On the other hand, by using spinor form of the Maxwell equations the propagation problem is reduced to the solution of the second-order differential equation of complex combination of the electric and magnetic fields. For these two different approaches, we obtain the spinors in terms of field strength tensor. We show that the Maxwell equations are equivalence to the mDKP equation in the Shuwer.