Could the classical relativistic electron be a strange attractor?

DOI10.1155/S1026022604401034MaRDI QIDQ1769474zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Xianqiang Yang

Publication date 21 March 2005

Published in Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0401098, https://eudml.org/doc/125072

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics) (37N20) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40) Motion of charged particles (78A35) Special relativity (83A05)

Abstract: We review the formulation of the problem of the electromagnetic self-interaction of a relativistic charged particle in the framework of the manifestly covariant classical mechanics of Stueckelberg, Horwitz and Piron. The gauge fields of this theory, in general, cause the mass of the particle to change. We show that the non-linear Lorentz force equation for the self-interaction resulting from the expansion of the Green's function has chaotic solutions. We study the autonomous equation for the off-shell particle mass here, for which the effective charged particle mass achieves a macroscopic average value determined by what appears to be a strange attractor.

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Summary: We review the formulation of the problem of the electromagnetic self-interaction of a relativistic charged particle in the framework of the manifestly covariant classical mechanics of Stueckelberg, Horwitz, and Piron. The gauge fields of this theory, in general, cause the mass of the particle to change. We show that the nonlinear Lorentz force equation for the self-interaction resulting from the expansion of Green's function has chaotic solutions. We study the autonomous equation for the off-shell particle mass here, for which the effective charged particle mass achieves a macroscopic average value determined by what appears to be a strange attractor.

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