Email this article Four-momentum of the field of a point charge in nonlinear electrodynamics
- Authors: Ependiev M.B.1
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Affiliations:
- Mechanical Engineering Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMASH RAN)
- Issue: Vol 191, No 3 (2017)
- Pages: 836-841
- Section: Article
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0040-5779/article/view/171260
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0040577917060046
- ID: 171260
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Abstract
We prove that the four-momentum of the electromagnetic field of a point charge is a four-vector if the field Lagrangian is nonlinear (with respect to field invariants) and the field mass is finite. We define the class of Lagrangians leading to a bound on the field mass.
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M. B. Ependiev
Mechanical Engineering Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMASH RAN)
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Email: m010148@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow
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