Relativistic Lagrangians for the Lorentz-Dirac equation

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2015.05.023zbMATH Open1360.81307arXiv1501.04551OpenAlexW2963431165MaRDI QIDQ527751FDOQ527751

Takafumi Suzuki, Shinichi Deguchi, Kunihiko Nakano

Publication date: 12 May 2017

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

Abstract: We present two types of relativistic Lagrangians for the Lorentz-Dirac equation written in terms of an arbitrary world-line parameter. One of the Lagrangians contains an exponential damping function of the proper time and explicitly depends on the world-line parameter. Another Lagrangian includes additional cross-terms consisting of auxiliary dynamical variables and does not depend explicitly on the world-line parameter. We demonstrate that both the Lagrangians actually yield the Lorentz-Dirac equation with a source-like term.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.04551

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zbMATH Keywords

Lagrangianradiation reactioncharged particleLorentz-Dirac equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) Motion of charged particles (78A35) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

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