Electromagnetic fields and potentials generated by massless charged particles

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2014.06.005MaRDI QIDQ305240zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Francesco Azzurli, Kurt Lechner

Publication date 29 August 2016

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.5721

zbMATH Keywords

distribution theoryelectrodynamicsmassless charges

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Maxwell equations (35Q61) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Motion of charged particles (78A35)

Abstract: We provide for the first time the exact solution of Maxwell's equations for a massless charged particle moving on a generic trajectory at the speed of light. In particular we furnish explicit expressions for the vector potential and the electromagnetic field, which were both previously unknown, finding that they entail different physical features for bounded and unbounded trajectories. With respect to the standard Lienard-Wiechert field the electromagnetic field acquires singular delta-like contributions whose support and dimensionality depend crucially on whether the motion is a) linear, b) accelerated unbounded, c) accelerated bounded. In the first two cases the particle generates a planar shock-wave-like electromagnetic field traveling along a straight line. In the second and third cases the field acquires, in addition, a delta-like contribution supported on a physical singularity-string attached to the particle. For generic accelerated motions a genuine radiation field is also present, represented by a regular principal-part type distribution diverging on the same singularity-string.

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