Variational principle and energy-momentum tensor for relativistic electrodynamics of point charges
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Publication:877688
DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2006.07.002zbMATH Open1115.81063arXivhep-th/0602224OpenAlexW2024813009MaRDI QIDQ877688FDOQ877688
Authors: Kurt Lechner, P. A. Marchetti 
Publication date: 3 May 2007
Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: We give a new representation as tempered distribution for the energy-momentum tensor of a system of charged point-particles, which is free from divergent self-interactions, manifestly Lorentz-invariant and symmetric, and conserved. We present a covariant action for this system, that gives rise to the known Lorentz-Dirac equations for the particles and entails, via Noether theorem, this energy-momentum tensor. Our action is obtained from the standard action for classical Electrodynamics, by means of a new Lorentz-invariant regularization procedure, followed by a renormalization. The method introduced here extends naturally to charged p-branes and arbitrary dimensions.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0602224
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