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The photon theory initiated by L. de Broglie some forty years ago contains several characteristic features, the most important of which I shall review in the following pages: a representation of the photon wave function through a bispinor, its wave equation, the annihilated state, and three points which still raise interesting questions, i.e. complex electromagnetic fields for elementary phenomena, non-Maxwellian tensor densities, and a massive photon.
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Géhéniau, J. (1976). On the Photon Theory of L. De Broglie. In: Flato, M., Maric, Z., Milojevic, A., Sternheimer, D., Vigier, J.P. (eds) Quantum Mechanics, Determinism, Causality, and Particles. Mathematical Physics and Applied Mathematics, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1440-3_14
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