A New Case for Direct Action

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An obstacle to the development of direct action version of electromagnetism was that in the end it failed to fulfill its initial promise of avoiding the problem of infinite Coulomb self-energy in the Maxwell theory of the classical point charge. This paper suggests a small but significant modification of the traditional direct action theory which overcomes that obstacle. Self-action is retained but the associated energy is rendered finite and equal to zero in the special case of null motion.
Presented at PIRT 2008; corrected typos

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General Physics

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http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/172661

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https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.4618
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