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Electrodynamics Classical Inconsistencies

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-09-06 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The problems of Classical Electrodynamics with the electron equation of motion and with non-integrable singularity of its self-field stress tensor are well known. They are consequences, we show, of neglecting terms that are null off the charge world line but that gives a non null contribution on its world line. The self-field stress tensor of a point classical electron is integrable, there is no causality violation and no conflict with energy conservation in its equation of motion, and there is no need of any kind of renormalization nor of any change in the Maxwell's theory for this. (This is part of the paper hep-th/9510160, stripped , for simplicity, of its non-Minkowskian geometrization of causality and of its discussion about the physical meaning of the Maxwell-Faraday concept of field).

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9511144,
  title  = {Electrodynamics Classical Inconsistencies},
  author = {Manoelito M. de Souza},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9511144},
  year   = {2016}
}

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15 pages, Revtex, 1 ps figure