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Appendix B<br />

Supplementary Identities<br />

B.1 Introduction<br />

In this appendix, we collect together various identities used throughout this<br />

thesis, for convenient reference. The notation and conventions used are explained<br />

in Appendix A.<br />

B.2 The electromagnetic field<br />

B.2.1<br />

The four-potential<br />

The fundamental physical object characterising the electromagnetic field is<br />

the massless four-vector field A(x), which is, for the purposes of this thesis,<br />

treated as a classical field, and referred to as the electromagnetic fourpotential.<br />

A(x) is not physically observable in its own right.<br />

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