Relativistic Lagrangians for the Lorentz-Dirac equation

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2015.05.023MaRDI QIDQ527751zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Shinichi Deguchi, Kunihiko Nakano, Takafumi Suzuki

Publication date 12 May 2017

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

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

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)

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.

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