Ill-posedness of the Maxwell-Dirac system below charge in space dimension three and lower (Q2046581)

The authors consider the Maxwell-Dirac equation which describes an electron in the self-induced electro-magnetic field. In the article ill/well posedness of a Cauchy problem is analysed for systems in different space dimensions \(d\). The main results of the work are formulated in Theorems 1,2,3 and 4. \par The first two Theorems present conditions for ill posedness of the Cauchy problem in \(d\leq 3\) in terms of different initial data. The Theorem 3 states existence of ill posedness for any \(d\) when constraints are considered. In the Theorem 4 a condition (formula (9)) for well posedness of the Cauchy problem in any dimension \(d\) is stated. The Cauchy problem is always well-posed if the functions \(\psi(0,x_i)\) and \(A_{\mu}(0,x_i)\) of the initial conditions depend only on one of the space coordinates.