caa a22 4500 46903145X CHVBK 20180323132744.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19921201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01883735 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01883735 Costa de Beauregard O. Institut Henri Poincaré, 11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75006, Paris, France aut Electromagnetic gauge as an integration condition: De Broglie's argument revisited and expanded [Elektronische Daten] [O. Costa de Beauregard] Einstein's mass-energy equivalence law, argues de Broglie, by fixing the zero of the potential energy of a system,ipso facto selects a gauge in electromagnetism. We examine how this works in electrostatics and in magnetostatics and bring in, as a "trump card,” the familiar, but highly peculiar, system consisting of a toroidal magnet m and a current coil c, where none of the mutual energy W resides in the vacuum. We propose the principle of a crucial test for measuring the fractions of W residing in m and in c; if the latter is nonzero, the (fieldless) vector potential has physicality. Also, using induction for transferring energy from the magnet to a superconducting current, we prove that W is equipartitioned between m and c. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1992 Foundations of Physics Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 22/12(1992-12-01), 1485-1494 0015-9018 22:12<1485 1992 22 10701 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01883735 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01883735 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Costa de Beauregard O. Institut Henri Poincaré, 11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75006, Paris, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Foundations of Physics Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 22/12(1992-12-01), 1485-1494 0015-9018 22:12<1485 1992 22 10701 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer