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We construct nonlinear extensions of Dirac's relativistic electron equation that preserve its other desirable properties such as locality, separability, conservation of probability and Poincar\'e invariance. We determine the constraints…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-02-27 Wei-Khim Ng , Rajesh R. Parwani

We develop analytical methods for nonlinear Dirac equations. Examples of such equations include Dirac-harmonic maps with curvature term and the equations describing the generalized Weierstrass representation of surfaces in three-manifolds.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-07-31 Qun Chen , Juergen Jost , Guofang Wang

The subject of radiation reaction in classical electromagnetism remains controversial over 120 years after the pioneering work of Lorentz. We give a simple but rigorous treatment of the subject at the textbook level that explains the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 Mario D'Andrea , Markus A. Luty , Christopher B. Verhaaren

The non-relativistic Goedecke equation (1975), which describes the motion of a point charge taking into account the radiation reaction, has no "runaway" solutions. A "physical" method of covariant generalization of this equation is…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Anatoliy V. Sermyagin

In 1892 H.A. Lorentz started the search for a classical equation of motion for pointlike charged particles that takes into account the radiation reaction force. This search culminated in the Lorentz-Abraham-Dirac equation of motion, which…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marijan Ribaric , Luka Sustersic

The paper derived differential equations which solve the problem of restoration the motion parameters for a rigid reference frame from the known proper acceleration and angular velocity of its origin as functions of proper time. These…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-18 Vitaliy Voytik

The Landau-Lifshitz equation is obtained from the Lorentz-Abraham-Dirac equation through `reduction of order'. It is the first in a divergent series of approximations that, after resummation, eliminate runaway solutions. Using Borel plane…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-25 Robin Ekman

Starting from the Dirac equation coupled to a classical radiation field a set of equations of motion for charged quasi-particles in the classical limit for slowly varying radiation and matter fields is derived. The radiation reaction term…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 Hartmut Ruhl , Christian Herzing

We propose classical equations of motion for a charged particle with magnetic moment, taking radiation reaction into account. This generalizes the Landau-Lifshitz equations for the spinless case. In the special case of spin-polarized motion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-07-05 Arnab Kar , S. G. Rajeev

The properties of the equation of Dirac type in three-dimensional and five-dimensional Minkowski space-time with respect to time reflection (in sense of Pauli and Wigner) as well as to the operation of charge conjugation are investigated.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wilhelm I. Fushchych

A model for the dynamics of a classical point charged particle interacting with higher order jet fields is introduced. In this model, the dynamics of the charged particle is described by an implicit ordinary second order differential…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-03-10 Ricardo Gallego Torromé

We derive equations of motion for dissipative spin hydrodynamics from kinetic theory up to first order in a gradient expansion. Choosing a specific form of the matching conditions, relating the change in the spin potential to the spin…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-09-25 Nora Weickgenannt

For more than a century the Abraham-Lorentz equation has generally been regarded as the correct description of the dynamics of a charged particle. However, there are pathological solutions of the Abraham-Lorentz equation in which a particle…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-06-24 Anupam Shaw

We propose a form for the action of a relativistic particle subject to a positional force that is invariant under time reparametrization and therefore allows for a consistent Hamiltonian formulation of the dynamics. This approach can be…

Classical Physics · Physics 2012-10-10 S. Mignemi

We derive a modified non-perturbative Lorentz-Abraham-Dirac equation. It satisfies the proper conservation laws, particularly, it conserves the generalized momentum, the latter property eliminates the symmetry-breaking runaway solution. The…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-28 Igor V. Sokolov , Natalia M. Naumova , John A. Nees , Gerard A. Mourou , Victor P. Yanovsky

This review is devoted to the study of stationary solutions of linear and nonlinear equations from relativistic quantum mechanics, involving the Dirac operator. The solutions are found as critical points of an energy functional. Contrary to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-10-27 Maria J. Esteban , Mathieu Lewin , Eric séré

There are known problems of Lorentz-Dirac equation for moving with acceleration charged particle in classical electrodynamics. The model of extended in one dimension particle is proposed and shown that electromagnetic self-interaction can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander A. Vlasov

We investigate the relativistic generalization of the classical St\"{o}rmer problem, which describes the motion of charged particles in a purely magnetic dipole field. By incorporating special relativistic effects, the particle dynamics is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-07 Tiberiu Harko , Francisco S. N. Lobo

In this paper we provide detailed information about the instability of equilibrium solutions of a nonlinear family of localized reaction-difussion equations in dimensione one. Beyond we provide explicit formulas to the equilibrium…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-25 César Adolfo Hernández Melo , Edgar Yesid Mayorga Lancheros

Using physical arguments, I derive the physically correct equations of motion for a classical charged particle from the Lorentz-Abraham-Dirac equations (LAD) which are well known to be physically incorrect. Since a charged particle can…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fritz Rohrlich