Extended-body approach to the electromagnetic self-force in curved spacetime

Details Extended-body approach to the electromagnetic self-force in curved spacetime Extended-body approach to the electromagnetic self-force in curved spacetime

2005-12-20

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0512111v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

13 pages; revised version

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We offer a novel derivation of the electromagnetic self-force acting on a charged particle moving in an arbitrary curved spacetime. Our derivation is based on a generalization from flat spacetime to curved spacetime of the extended-body approach of Ori and Rosenthal. In this approach the charged particle is first modeled as a body of finite extension s, the net force acting on the extended body is computed, and the limit s -> 0 is taken at the end of the calculation. Concretely our extended body is a dumbbell that consists of two point charges that are maintained at a constant spacelike separation s. The net force acting on the dumbbell includes contributions from the mutual forces exerted on each charge by the field created by the other charge, the individual self-forces exerted on each charge by its own field, and the external force which is mostly responsible for the dumbbell's acceleration. These contributions are added up, in a way that respects the curved nature of the spacetime, and all diverging terms in the net force are shown to be removable by mass renormalization. Our end result, in the limit s -> 0, is the standard expression for the electromagnetic self-force in curved spacetime.

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