Neoclassical theory of electromagnetic interactions. A single theory for macroscopic and microscopic scales (Q299572)

The monograph aims at presenting an extension of the classical theory of electromagnetic interactions (which is called ``neoclassical'' by the authors) down to atomic scales, including the infinite series of discrete energy levels and frequencies of the hydrogen atom. The theory allows many phenomena at atomic scales, usually explained in the quantum-mechanical framework, to be explained without a probabilistic interpretation of the wave function, and there is no need for the correspondence principle and consequent quantization procedure to obtain the wave equation. The proposed theory is manifestly relativistic, and it is self-consistent at all spatial scales. At the center of the theory is the concept of an elementary charge which is not a point but an entity distributed in space, and the behavior of the charge in different regimes is described just by different approximations in the same framework. One of the critical turning point in the construction of the theory is a modification of the Klein-Gordon equation (commonly used in quantum electrodynamics to describe relativistic particles) by introducing in it a nonlinearity that represents new internal cohesive forces of non-electromagnetic origin: these forces can contribute to the localization of an elementary charge in relevant regimes. The book consists of two introductory chapters and six parts also divided in chapters. The first two parts are also introductory, containing fundamental facts, terminology and concepts used in the consequent treatment. A concise presentation of the neoclassical theory is provided in Chapter 3 whereas its detailed exposition is given in Part III -- the central part of the monograph. In Part IV, a theory of distributed charges with spin 1/2 is introduced and Lagrangian aspects of the theory are developed. Part V deals with mathematical aspects of the theory. In this part, mathematically rigorous statements concerning a number of aspects of the theory are formulated and proved. Particularly, the introduced concept of the trajectory of concentration allows giving a precise mathematical meaning to the concept of localization of the charge used in the discussions of macroscopic regimes. It is shown that every classical point trajectory of a charge can be represented by concentrating wave-corpuscle asymptotic solutions to the nonlinear Schrödinger equation. Part VI consists of several appendices mainly illustrating particular aspect of the Hamilton-Jacoby theory, which provides valuable insights in the developed theory. An important feature of the work is that it is completely self-contained.