Mass change and motion of a scalar charge in cosmological spacetimes

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/22/15/008zbMATH Open1075.83557arXivgr-qc/0411108OpenAlexW1984445030MaRDI QIDQ5693103FDOQ5693103

Authors: Roland Haas, Eric Poisson 

Publication date: 28 September 2005

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Continuing previous work reported in an earlier paper [L.M. Burko, A.I. Harte, and E. Poisson, Phys. Rev. D 65, 124006 (2002)] we calculate the self-force acting on a point scalar charge in a wide class of cosmological spacetimes. The self-force produces two types of effect. The first is a time-changing inertial mass, and this is calculated exactly for a particle at rest relative to the cosmological fluid. We show that for certain cosmological models, the mass decreases and then increases back to its original value. For all other models except de Sitter spacetime, the mass is restored only to a fraction of its original value. For de Sitter spacetime the mass steadily decreases. The second effect is a deviation relative to geodesic motion, and we calculate this for a charge that moves slowly relative to the dust in a matter-dominated cosmology. We show that the net effect of the self-force is to push on the particle. We show that this is not an artifact of the scalar theory: The electromagnetic self-force acting on an electrically charged particle also pushes on the particle. The paper concludes with a demonstration that the pushing effect can also occur in the context of slow-motion electrodynamics in flat spacetime.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0411108

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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• The motion of point particles in curved spacetime
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