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IN a recent series of articles1 Born has developed, with Infeld, a new theory of the electromagnetic field that solves the difficulties connected with the self-energy of the electron. In II an elegant form is given for the Lagrangian of the electromagnetic field, but the Lagrangian alone does not completely specify the electromagnetic field since one must add the assumption2 that fkl is the curl of a potential vector k. The method suggested3 for including the Einstein gravitational equations within the theory would further mar the elegance of the Lagrangian.
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For example, Proc. Roy. Soc., 143, 410; 1934; referred to as I, and 144, 425; 1934; referred to as II.
II, p. 433, Eq. (3.1).
II, p. 435.
See “Projektive Relativitätstheorie”, O. Veblen, Ergebnisse der Math., Berlin, 1933.
With the constant subtracted as in I, p. 432, Eq. (7.10).
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HOFFMANN, B. The New Field Theory. Nature 134, 322 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134322a0
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