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On the motion of point defects in relativistic fields

Mathematical Physics 2011-07-25 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology math.MP

Abstract

We inquire into classical and quantum laws of motion for the point charge sources in the nonlinear Maxwell-Born-Infeld field equations of classical electromagnetism in flat and curved Einstein spacetimes.

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@article{arxiv.1107.2286,
  title  = {On the motion of point defects in relativistic fields},
  author = {Michael K. -H. Kiessling},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.2286},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

40 pages; based on a talk given at the conference "Quantum Field Theory and Gravity", Regensburg 2010 (Felix Finster, Olaf Mueller, Marc Nardmann, Juergen Tolksdorf, Eberhard Zeidler, eds.). To appear in the refereed conference proceedings