Electromagnetic self-force of a point charge from the rate of change of the momentum of its retarded self-field

DOI10.1016/S0034-4877(19)30068-0MaRDI QIDQ2194255zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors G. Vaman, Vladimir Hnizdo

Publication date 25 August 2020

Published in Reports on Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04488

zbMATH Keywords

delta functionself-forceLorentz-Abraham-Dirac equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A40)

Abstract: The self-force of a point charge moving on a rectilinear trajectory is obtained, with no need of any explicit removal of infinities, as the negative of the time rate of change of the momentum of its retarded self-field.

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