Chaos and maps in relativistic dynamical systems

DOI10.1155/S1026022600000078MaRDI QIDQ659470zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Juan-Miguel Gracia

Publication date 23 January 2012

Published in Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9901016

zbMATH Keywords

chaosradiation reactionrelativitydynamical maps

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25)

Abstract: The basic work of Zaslavskii et al showed that the classical non-relativistic electromagnetically kicked oscillator can be cast into the form of an iterative map on the phase space; the resulting evolution contains a stochastic flow to unbounded energy. Subsequent studies have formulated the problem in terms of a relativistic charged particle in interaction with the electromagnetic field. We review the structure of the covariant Lorentz force used to study this problem. We show that the Lorentz force equation can be derived as well from the manifestly covariant mechanics of Stueckelberg in the presence of a standard Maxwell field, establishing a connection between these equations and mass shell constraints. We argue that these relativistic generalizations of the problem are intrinsically inaccurate due to an inconsistency in the structure of the relativistic Lorentz force, and show that a reformulation of the relativistic problem, permitting variations (classically) in both the particle mass and the effective ``mass of the interacting electromagnetic field, provides a consistent system of classical equations for describing such processes.

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