Causality and Self-consistency in Classical Electrodynamics

Details Causality and Self-consistency in Classical Electrodynamics Causality and Self-consistency in Classical Electrodynamics

1996-05-02

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9605014v2

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

Replaced with revised version, 4 improved figures and a new section discussing the physical meaning of terms in the electron e

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We present a pedagogical review of old inconsistencies of Classical Electrodynamics and of some new ideas that solve them. Problems with the electron equation of motion and with the non-integrable singularity of its self-field energy tensor are well known. They are consequences, we show, of neglecting terms that are null off the charge world-line but that give a non null contribution on its world-line. The electron self-field energy tensor is integrable without the use of any kind of renormalization; there is no causality violation and no conflict with energy conservation in the electron equation of motion, when its meaning is properly considered.

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