On the self-force in electrodynamics and implications for gravity
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2021-04-07 v1
Abstract
We consider the motion of charged point particles on Minkowski spacetime. The questions of whether the self-force is finite and whether mass renormalisation is necessary are discussed within three theories: In the standard Maxwell vacuum theory, in the non-linear Born-Infeld theory and in the higher-order Bopp-Podolsky theory. In a final section we comment on possible implications for the theory of the self-force in gravity.
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@article{arxiv.1411.0286,
title = {On the self-force in electrodynamics and implications for gravity},
author = {Volker Perlick},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.0286},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
23 pages, 5 figures, contribution to the proceedings of the 524. WE-Heraeus-Seminar "Equations of motion in relativistic gravity"