Relativistic point dynamics and Einstein formula as a property of localized solutions of a nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation

DOI10.1007/S00220-013-1732-ZMaRDI QIDQ358357zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexander Figotin, Anatoli Babin

Publication date 8 August 2013

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.0337

Klein-Gordon equation internal energy Einstein formula KG localized wave nonlinear KG equation relativistic point dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Wave equation (35L05) Special relativity (83A05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40)

Abstract: Einstein's relation E=Mc^2 between the energy E and the mass M is the cornerstone of the relativity theory. This relation is often derived in a context of the relativistic theory for closed systems which do not accelerate. By contrast, Newtonian approach to the mass is based on an accelerated motion. We study here a particular neoclassical field model of a particle governed by a nonlinear Klein-Gordon (KG) field equation. We prove that if a solution to the nonlinear KG equation and its energy density concentrate at a trajectory, then this trajectory and the energy must satisfy the relativistic version of Newton's law with the mass satisfying Einstein's relation. Therefore the internal energy of a localized wave affects its acceleration in an external field as the inertial mass does in Newtonian mechanics. We demonstrate that the "concentration" assumptions hold for a wide class of rectilinear accelerating motions.

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