Radiation from a uniformly accelerated charge

DOI10.1023/A:1026646928717MaRDI QIDQ1807335zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Amos Harpaz, Noam Soker

Publication date 18 November 1999

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9805097

zbMATH Keywords

curved electric fieldprinciple of equivalence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic procedures (radiation, news functions, (mathcal{H} )-spaces, etc.) in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C30) Gravitational waves (83C35)

Abstract: The emission of radiation by a uniformly accelerated charge is analyzed. According to the standard approach, a radiation is observed whenever there is a relative acceleraion between the charge and the observer. Analyzing difficulties that arose in the standard approach, we propose that a radaition is created whenever a relative acceleration between the charge and its own electric field exists. The electric field induced by a charge accelerated by an external (nongravitational) force, is not accelerated with the charge. Hence the electric field is curved in the instantanous rest frame of the accelerated charge. This curvature gives rise to a stress force, and the work done to overcome the stress force is the source of the energy carried by the radiation. In this way, the "energy balance paradox" finds its solution.

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• A coaccelerated observer
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• Falling charges and Lemaître observers
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