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THE new electrodynamics put forward by M. Born1 changes the form of Maxwell's equations. The question arises, whether this generalisation is the only one which gives a finite mass for an elementary particle and becomes, for weak fields, the Maxwellian equations.
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INFELD, L. The New Electrodynamics and the Fine Structure Constant. Nature 137, 658 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137658b0
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