Ultrarelativistic sources in nonlinear electrodynamics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2011-07-19 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
The fields of rapidly moving sources are studied within nonlinear electrodynamics by boosting the fields of sources at rest. As a consequence of the ultrarelativistic limit the delta-like electromagnetic shock waves are found. The character of the field within the shock depends on the theory of nonlinear electrodynamics considered. In particular, we obtain the field of an ultrarelativistic charge in the Born-Infeld theory.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0604104,
title = {Ultrarelativistic sources in nonlinear electrodynamics},
author = {Jiri Bicak and David Kubiznak},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0604104},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
10 pages, 3 figures