{"paper":{"title":"On the causality of electrodynamics and the Aharonov-Bohm effect","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["math.MP","quant-ph"],"primary_cat":"math-ph","authors_text":"Richard Kowar","submitted_at":"2011-11-24T13:36:46Z","abstract_excerpt":"This paper presents a \\emph{non-instant field model} for electrodynamics that permits a causal explanation of the \\emph{Aharonov-Bohm effect} and a \\emph{covariant quantization} of the respective Maxwell equations via the \\emph{Gupta-Bleuler method}. Our model satisfies the following \\emph{correspondence principle}: if $A^\\mu$, $\\vE$, $\\vB$ denote the four potential, the electric field and the magnetic field of the non-instant field model, then the respective classical quantities are $\\A[A^\\mu]$, $\\A[\\vE]$, $\\A[\\vB]$, where $\\A$ is a covariant time averaging operator. Here $\\A[A^\\mu]$ is inter"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1111.5755","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}