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arxiv: math-ph/0311034 · v3 · submitted 2003-11-20 · 🧮 math-ph · math.AP· math.DS· math.MP

Electromagnetic Field Theory without Divergence Problems 2. A Least Invasively Quantized Theory

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The classical Maxwell--Born--Infeld field equations coupled with a Hamilton--Jacobi law of point charge motion are partially quantized by coupling the Hamilton-Jacobi phase function with an amplitude function, which combines with the phase function into a single complex wave function satisfying a relativistic Klein--Gordon equation self-consistently coupled to the evolution equations for the electromagnetic fields with generic point source (explicitly worked out for one particle; options for many particles briefly discussed). Radiation-free stationary states exist. The hydrogen spectrum with infinitely massive nucleus is discussed in some detail and upper estimates for Born's `aether constant' obtained. In the nonrelativistic limit the model reduces to the de-Broglie--Bohm formulation of quantum mechanics.

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