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In 1933-1934 Born and Infeld constructed the first non-linear generalization of Maxwell's electrodynamics that turned out to be a remarkable theory in many respects. In 1935 Heisenberg and Euler computed a complete effective action…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 Dmitri P. Sorokin

In this article we have illustrated how is possible to formulate Maxwell's equations in vacuum in an independent form of the usual systems of units. Maxwell's equations, are then specialized to the most commonly used systems of units:…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-07-02 Francesco Ferdinando Summa

In this paper it is exactly proved that the standard transformations of the three-dimensional (3D) vectors of the electric and magnetic fields E and B are not relativistically correct transformations. Thence the 3D vectors E and B are not…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomislav Ivezic

Non-minimally coupled Y(R)-Maxwell gravity which have some interesting solutions may be used to understand dark matter, dark energy, the origin of cosmic magnetic field and the evaluation of the universe. We give some new solutions to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-04-09 Özcan Sert

We consider the one and one-half dimensional multi-species relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system with non-decaying(in space) initial data. We prove its well-posedness and nonrelativistic limit as the speed of light $c\rightarrow\infty$. These…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-28 Jack Schaeffer , Lei Wu

Pleba\'nski's class of nonlinear vacuum electrodynamics is considered which is for several reasons of interest at the present time. In particular the question is answered under which circumstances Maxwell's original field equations are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-10 Gerold Oltman Schellstede

The physical essence of the non-relativistic limit, from the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell-Landau system to the Vlasov-Poisson-Landau system, lies in the transition from finite-speed electromagnetic waves to instantaneous Coulomb…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Chuqi Cao , Ling-Bing He , Yuanjie Lei , Qinghua Xiao

We demonstrate for the first time and unexpectedly that the Principle of Relativity dictates the choice of the "gauge conditions" in the canonical example of a Gauge Theory namely Classical Electromagnetism. All the known "gauge conditions"…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-12-15 Germain Rousseaux

We will provide detailed arguments showing that the set of Maxwell equations, and the corresponding wave equations, do not properly describe the evolution of electromagnetic wave-fronts. We propose a nonlinear corrected version that is…

General Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 D. Funaro

Conformal electrodynamics is a particularly interesting example of power Maxwell non-linear electrodynamics, designed to possess conformal symmetry in all dimensions. In this paper, we propose a regularized version of Conformal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-23 David Kubiznak , Otakar Svítek , Tayebeh Tahamtan

We consider non-Lorentzian expansions, Galilean and Carrollian, of the Lorentz force equation in which both the particle position and the electro-magnetic field are expanded. There are two well-known limits in the case of a constant field,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-25 José Luis V. Cerdeira , Joaquim Gomis , Axel Kleinschmidt

We study in this paper the non-relativistic limit from Vlasov-Maxwell to Vlasov-Poisson, which corresponds to the regime where the speed of light is large compared to the typical velocities of particles. In contrast with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-29 Nicolas Brigouleix , Daniel Han-Kwan

We applied an effective approximation into Maxwell's equations with an axion interaction for haloscope searches. A set of Maxwell's equations acquired from this approximation describes just the reacted fields generated by the anomalous…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-04 Younggeun Kim , Dongok Kim , Junu Jung , Jinsu Kim , Yun Chang Shin , Yannis K. Semertzidis

It is now widely accepted that the Maxwell equations of Electrodynamics constitute a self-consistent set of four independent partial differential equations. According to a certain school of thought, however, half of these equations -…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 C. J. Papachristou , A. N. Magoulas

We consider the Proca equation which is the Maxwell equation of electromagnetism for a massive particle, in the ultra relativistic limit using Snyder-Sidharth Hamiltonian. There is now an extra parity non-conserving term and we investigate…

General Physics · Physics 2010-10-05 Venkata Aditya Cherikuri , B. G. Sidharth

It has been argued, that in noncommutative field theories sizes of physical objects cannot be taken smaller than an elementary length related to noncommutativity parameters. By gauge-covariantly extending field equations of noncommutative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-11-01 T. C. Adorno , D. M. Gitman , A. E. Shabad , D. V. Vassilevich

A new formulation of electromagnetism based on linear differential commutator brackets is developed. Maxwell equations are derived, using these commutator brackets, from the vector potential $\vec{A}$, the scalar potential $\phi$ and the…

General Physics · Physics 2012-03-21 Arbab I. Arbab , Faisal A. Yassein

We deal with the ``nonrelativistic limit'', i.e. the limit c to infinity, where c is the speed of light, of the nonlinear PDE system obtained by coupling the Dirac equation for a 4-spinor to the Maxwell equations for the self-consistent…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Philippe Bechouche , Norbert J. Mauser , Sigmund Selberg

In this paper is considered nonlinear electrodynamics (NE) which does not satisfy the linear superposition principle (LSP). Since the presentation of the special theory of relativity, it has been commonly accepted that a famous formula E =…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-10-20 Ho-Dong Jo , Chol-Song Kim

The kinematics of particles refer to events and tangent vectors, while that of waves refer to dual gradient planes. Special relativity [1-3] applies to both objects alike. Here we show that spacetime exchange symmetry [7] implicit in the…

General Physics · Physics 2010-05-31 Jens Madsen Houlrik , Germain Rousseaux