Enigmatic Photon, Vol. 2 Non-Abelian Electrodynamics

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.Evans, Myron is the author of 'Enigmatic Photon, Vol. 2 Non-Abelian Electrodynamics' with ISBN 9780792332886 and ISBN 0792332881.