Optical geometry analysis of the electromagnetic self-force
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-11-11 v2
Abstract
We present an analysis of the behaviour of the electromagnetic self-force for charged particles in a conformally static spacetime, interpreting the results with the help of optical geometry. Some conditions for the vanishing of the local terms in the self-force are derived and discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0512082,
title = {Optical geometry analysis of the electromagnetic self-force},
author = {Sebastiano Sonego and Marek A. Abramowicz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0512082},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
18 pages; 2 figures