Radiation-reaction in classical off-shell electrodynamics. I: The above mass-shell case

DOI10.1063/1.3694276zbMATH Open1274.83128arXiv1105.5498OpenAlexW1977717070MaRDI QIDQ2861752FDOQ2861752

Authors: I. Aharonovich, L. Horwitz 

Publication date: 11 November 2013

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Offshell electrodynamics based on a manifestly covariant off-shell relativistic dynamics of Stueckelberg, Horwitz and Piron, is five-dimensional. In this paper, we study the problem of radiation reaction of a particle in motion in this framework. In particular, the case of above-mass-shell is studied in detail, where the renormalization of the Lorentz force leads to a system of non-linear differential equations for 3 Lorentz scalars. The system is then solved numerically, where it is shown that the mass-shell deviation scalar $ve$ either smoothly falls down to 0 (this result provides a mechanism for the mass stability of the off-shell theory), or strongly diverges under more extreme conditions. In both cases, no runaway motion is observed. Stability analysis indicates that the system seems to have chaotic behavior in the divergent case. It is also shown that, although a motion under which the mass-shell deviation $ve$ is constant but not-zero, is indeed possible, but, it is unstable, and eventually it either decays to 0 or diverges.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.5498

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zbMATH Keywords

Stueckelberg-Horwitz-Piron relativistic dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Motion of charged particles (78A35) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Transition to stochasticity (chaotic behavior) for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K55)

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