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Essay on the Non-Maxwellian Theories of Electromagnetism

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

In the first part of this paper we review several formalisms which give alternative ways for describing the light. They are: the formalism `baroque' and the Majorana-Oppenheimer form of electrodynamics, the Sachs' theory of Elementary Matter, the Dirac-Fock-Podol'sky model, its development by Staruszkiewicz, the Evans-Vigier B(3){\bf B}^{(3)} field, the theory with an invariant evolution parameter of Horwitz, the analysis of the action-at-a-distance concept, presented recently by Chubykalo and Smirnov-Rueda, and the analysis of the claimed `longitudity' of the antisymmetric tensor field after quantization. The second part is devoted to the discussion of the Weinberg formalism and its recent development by Ahluwalia and myself.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9609144,
  title  = {Essay on the Non-Maxwellian Theories of Electromagnetism},
  author = {Valeri V. Dvoeglazov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9609144},
  year   = {2007}
}

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