On the existence of dynamics in Wheeler-Feynman electromagnetism

DOI10.1007/S00033-012-0293-XMaRDI QIDQ2393617zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gernot Bauer, D.-A. Deckert, Detlef Dürr

Publication date 8 August 2013

Published in ZAMP. Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.3103

zbMATH Keywords

functional differential equationsWheeler-Feynman electrodynamicsMaxwell-Lorentz equationsabsorber electrodynamicsFokker-Schwarzschild-Tetrode equationsMaxwell solutionsSynge equationsLiénart-Wiechert fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Neutral functional-differential equations (34K40) Wave equation (35L05) Initial value problems for second-order hyperbolic equations (35L15) Second-order nonlinear hyperbolic equations (35L70) Maxwell equations (35Q61) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Motion of charged particles (78A35)

Abstract: We study the equations of Wheeler-Feynman electrodynamics which is an action-at-a-distance theory about world-lines of charges that interact through their corresponding advanced and retarded Li'enard-Wiechert field terms. The equations are non-linear, neutral, and involve time-like advanced as well as retarded arguments of unbounded delay. Using a reformulation in terms of Maxwell-Lorentz electrodynamics without self-interaction, which we have introduced in a preceding work, we are able to establish the existence of conditional solutions. These are solutions that solve the Wheeler-Feynman equations on any finite time interval with prescribed continuations outside of this interval. As a byproduct we also prove existence and uniqueness of solutions to the Synge equations on the time half-line for a given history of charge trajectories.

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