Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2001-02-19
Prog.Theor.Phys. 106 (2001) 71
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
30 pages 2 figures
Scientific paper
10.1143/PTP.106.71
The energy-momentum tensor of the Li\'enard-Wiechert field is split into bound and emitted parts in the Rindler frame, by generalizing the reasoning of Teitelboim applied in the inertial frame. Our analysis proceeds by invoking the concept of ``energy'' defined with respect to the Killing vector field attached to the frame. We obtain the radiation formula in the Rindler frame (the Rindler version of the Larmor formula), and it is found that the radiation power is proportional to the square of acceleration $\alpha^\mu$ of the charge relative to the Rindler frame. This result leads us to split the Li\'enard-Wiechert field into a part II', which is linear in $\alpha^\mu$, and a part I', which is independent of $\alpha^\mu$. By using these, we split the energy-momentum tensor into two parts. We find that these are properly interpreted as the emitted and bound parts of the tensor in the Rindler frame. In our identification of radiation, a charge radiates neither in the case that the charge is fixed in the Rindler frame, nor in the case that the charge satisfies the equation $\alpha^\mu=0$. We then investigate this equation. We consider four gedanken experiments related to the observer dependence of the concept of radiation.
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