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On the Motion of Point Defects in Relativistic Fields

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We inquire into classical and quantum laws of motion for the point charge sources in the nonlinear Maxwell–Born–Infeld field equations of classical electromagnetism in flat and curved Einstein spacetimes.

Mathematics Subject Classification (2010). 78A02, 78A25, 83A05, 83C10, 83C50, 83C75.

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Kiessling, M.KH. (2012). On the Motion of Point Defects in Relativistic Fields. In: Finster, F., Müller, O., Nardmann, M., Tolksdorf, J., Zeidler, E. (eds) Quantum Field Theory and Gravity. Springer, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-0043-3_14

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