Abstract
We point out that recently published analyses of null and timelike infinity and long-range structures in electrodynamics to large extent rediscover results present in the literature. At the same time, some of the conclusions these recent works put forward may prove controversial. In view of these facts, we find it desirable to revisit the analysis taken up more than two decades ago, starting from earlier works on null infinity by other authors.
Highlights
1 Introduction In a series of recent articles—see [24] and [8] and works cited there—a group of authors report on new conservation laws and symmetries both in classical and quantum electrodynamics
In the context set by these investigations there is a noticeable interest in the literature in the so-called memory effects, both in gravitation, as well as electrodynamics
The standard technique usually employed for handling this problem was proposed by Dollard [12] and in quantum electrodynamics was applied by Kulish and Faddeev [26]
Summary
In a series of recent articles—see [24] and [8] and works cited there—a group of authors report on new conservation laws and symmetries both in classical and quantum electrodynamics. These structures are supposed to be encoded in the asymptotic properties of electrodynamics. In the context set by these investigations there is a noticeable interest in the literature in the so-called memory effects, both in gravitation, as well as electrodynamics (see [24,28] and works cited there)
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