This book is the first of two volumes devoted to the photon. Volume 1 presents the first systematic development of the fundamental magnetizing field of electromagnetic radiation: the field Ii3. The book has 12 chapters which collectively describe the properties of Ii3 in a vacuum and in the interaction of light with matter. Volume 2 deals with the development of non-Abelian, or O(3), electrodynamics in which Ii3 is incorporated systematically. For researchers and graduate students interested in the theory of electromagnetic radiation.

The Enigmatic Photon: Volume 1: The Field B(3) (Fundamental Theories of Physics)

Science & Math

Myron W. Evans

Jean-Pierre Vigier

Mathematics

Springer

This book is a sequel to The Enigmatic Photon. Volume 1: The Field IX(3) (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994), which presented the first systematic development of the fundamental magnetizing field of electromagnetic radiation: the field £Ii£(3). Its 12 chapters collectively describe the properties of Ii(3) in a vacuum and in the interaction of light with matter. The present volume deals with the development of the theory of the Evans--Vigier field Ii(3). It opens with the derivation of the novel field Ii(3) from the Dirac equation of relativistic quantum field theory. The existence of Ii(3) in the vacuum means that the gauge group of electromagnetism becomes 0(3), the group of rotations. This is non-Abelian, and so requires a self-consistent development of the vacuum Maxwell equations themselves. The role of Ii(3) is discussed in unified field theory and quantum electrodynamics. The classical vacuum field Ii(3) is a novel, fundamentally important feature of electrodynamics which indicates that the particulate photon carries mass, thus settling a longstanding debate in favour of protagonists of photon mass. For researchers and graduate students interested in the theory of electromagnetic radiation.

The Enigmatic Photon: Volume 2: Non-Abelian Electrodynamics (Fundamental Theories of Physics)

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The Enigmatic Photon: Volume 1: The Field B(3) (Fundamental Theories of Physics)

The Enigmatic Photon: Volume 2: Non-Abelian Electrodynamics (Fundamental Theories of Physics)