Abstract
In these notes we shall omit many details which can be found in a paper which was published in Nuclear Physics a few months ago [1]. We are concerned, through a non-local treatment of quantum electrodynamics (QED), with two problems:
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Gauge invariance and the photon mass: it has been thought for a long time that gauge invariance leads automatically to a vanishing physical mass of the photon. Recently [2], examples have been given which clearly indicate that this is not necessarily so. One can also show [3] that a consistent formulation of QED can be constructed which allows for a non-zero mass from the beginning.
Lecture given at the IV. Internationale Universitätswochen für Kernphysik, Schladming, 25 February–10 March 1965.
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Lévy, M. (1965). Non-Local Quantumelectrodynamics. In: Urban, P. (eds) Quantum Electrodynamics. Supplementa, vol 2/1965. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-7649-8_6
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