Complex space-localized fields interacting with electromagnetic fields

Abstract

Several families of nonlinear field equations are known to possess space- localized singularity-free solutions which describe fields with finite Hermitian norms. This paper studies the interaction of such fields with given electromagnetic potentials entering the field's equations through the covariant derivative form. The main result is: the motion of a space-localized field, as a whole, is essentially identical to that of a point charge moving in the same electromagnetic potentials, if this field is a solution either to a nonlinear Schrodinger or to a nonlinear Dirac equation, under some very general and physically meaningful assumptions. Using an alternative method, similar result is shown to hold for a very wide class of nonlinear field equations.