Electrodynamics as a Theory of Persistent Stochastic Processes

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.24494v1
• Date: Sat, 23 May 2026 10:01:32 GMT
• Title: Electrodynamics as a Theory of Persistent Stochastic Processes
• Abstract summary: A process-theoretic approach to electrodynamics based on persistent Kac-type processes is developed.<n> relativistic wave equations arise as emergent descriptions after analytic continuation of Telegrapher-type dynamics.<n>The framework is not intended to modify the successful empirical predictions of quantum electrodynamics.
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• Abstract: A process-theoretic approach to electrodynamics based on persistent Kac-type stochastic processes is developed. Finite-velocity stochastic propagation is taken as primary, while relativistic wave equations arise as emergent descriptions after analytic continuation of Telegrapher-type dynamics. The Dirac and Maxwell equations are interpreted as arising from closely related persistent propagation structures differing only in spin representation. The framework is not intended to modify the successful empirical predictions of quantum electrodynamics, but to provide a different underlying ontology. Particles and fields are not treated as primitive entities with fixed intrinsic properties. Instead, relativistic particle and field structures emerge as stable collective modes of coupled persistent stochastic dynamics. Mass and charge acquire interpretations respectively as persistence and stochastic coupling scales. Stationary bound states are interpreted as metastable persistent stochastic modes with nontrivial internal sector dynamics. Spontaneous emission is viewed as stochastic destabilization of such modes, while stimulated emission arises through resonant synchronization of persistent transition currents by incident radiation. Gauge interactions are introduced at the level of propagation-sector amplitudes prior to the emergence of observable probabilities. Radiative effects, including the anomalous magnetic moment of the electron, are interpreted as effective stochastic dressing of coupled matter--radiation processes. Some comments on gauge symmetry, equilibration and the Standard Model are also included.

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