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

absorber electrodynamicsFokker-Schwarzschild-Tetrode equationsfunctional differential equationsLiénart-Wiechert fieldsMaxwell solutionsMaxwell-Lorentz equationsSynge equationsWheeler-Feynman electrodynamics

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.

Review text

The authors reformulate the Wheeler-Feynman electrodynamics approach by applying the Maxwell-Lorentz electrodynamics without self-interactions and they obtain conditional solutions for Fokker-Schwarzschild-Tetrode equations. They also prove the uniqueness of solutions to the Synge equations on the time half-line for a given history of charge world-lines. The text of the paper is divided into four chapters dealing with introductory details, setup of the paper with obtained results, preliminaries concerning different aspects of solutions of Maxwell's equations, and details of used mathematical procedures including proofs of related lemmas.

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