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Quasi-local contribution to the scalar self-force: Non-geodesic Motion

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2012-01-17 v4

Abstract

We extend our previous calculation of the quasi-local contribution to the self-force on a scalar particle to general (not necessarily geodesic) motion in a general spacetime. In addition to the general case and the case of a particle at rest in a stationary spacetime, we consider as examples a particle held at rest in Reissner-Nordstrom and Kerr-Newman space-times. This allows us to most easily analyse the effect of non-geodesic motion on our previous results and also allows for comparison to existing results for Schwarzschild spacetime.

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@article{arxiv.0810.1961,
  title  = {Quasi-local contribution to the scalar self-force: Non-geodesic Motion},
  author = {Adrian C. Ottewill and Barry Wardell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.1961},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

11 pages, 1 figure, corrected typo in Eq. 2.8

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