Radiation Reaction and Center Manifolds

DOI10.1137/S0036141099351577zbMATH Open1026.78006arXivmath-ph/9901004OpenAlexW1994257475MaRDI QIDQ4509941FDOQ4509941

Authors: Herbert Spohn, Markus Kunze 

Publication date: 19 October 2000

Published in: SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the effective dynamics of a mechanical particle coupled to a wave field and subject to the slowly varying potential $V(epsq)$ with $eps$ small. To lowest order in $eps$ the motion of the particle is governed by an effective Hamiltonian. In the next order one obtains ``dissipative terms which describe the radiation reaction. We establish that this dissipative dynamics has a center manifold which is repulsive in the normal direction and which is global, in the sense that for given data and sufficiently small $eps$ the solution stays on the center manifold forever. We prove that the solution of the full system is well approximated by the effective dissipative dynamics on its center manifold.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/9901004

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zbMATH Keywords

wave equationadiabatic limiteffective friction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Heat equation (35K05) Motion of charged particles (78A35) Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics) (37N20)

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