Consequences of Dirac Theory of the Positron

Abstract

According to Dirac's theory of the positron, an electromagnetic field tends to create pairs of particles which leads to a change of Maxwell's equations in the vacuum. These changes are calculated in the special case that no real electrons or positrons are present and the field varies little over a Compton wavelength.

Translation of historic paper "Folgerungen aus der Diracschen Theorie des Positrons" Zeitschr. Phys. 98, 714 (1936); translated by W. Korolevski and H. Kleinert, FU-Berlin

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