scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2059318

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Authors Chris Radford

Publication date 16 March 2004

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0112037

zbMATH Keywords

Dirac currentmagnetic monopolesMaxwell-Dirac equationsspherical symmetrystatic Maxwell-Dirac equationsstationary Maxwell-Dirac equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Covariant wave equations in quantum theory, relativistic quantum mechanics (81R20) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

Review text

The author considers the full Maxwell-Dirac equations, i.e. the nonlinear system in Lorentzian space-time consisting of the minimally coupled (with electromagnetic potential field) Dirac equation and the Maxwell equations with the Dirac current as source. The qualitative, non-perturbative properties of isolated systems (a single isolated electron) are examined. The spherically symmetric solution is shown to provide an excellent example (because of physical sense) of an isolated, stationary (Dirac field time independent in some gauge) and static (Dirac current time-like in some frame) Maxwell-Dirac system. In the setting that the system is static and stationary the author directly uses the field equations and the decay rates to deduce that the total electric charge of the system must be zero. It is remarkable that this result depends only on asymptotic regularity and decay on infinity. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0989.00035].

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