Self-forces from generalized Killing fields

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/25/23/235020MaRDI QIDQ5302167zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Abraham I. Harte

Publication date 6 January 2009

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.1150

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40)

Abstract: A non-perturbative formalism is developed that simplifies the understanding of self-forces and self-torques acting on extended scalar charges in curved spacetimes. Laws of motion are locally derived using momenta generated by a set of generalized Killing fields. Self-interactions that may be interpreted as arising from the details of a body's internal structure are shown to have very simple geometric and physical interpretations. Certain modifications to the usual definition for a center-of-mass are identified that significantly simplify the motions of charges with strong self-fields. A derivation is also provided for a generalized form of the Detweiler-Whiting axiom that pointlike charges should react only to the so-called regular component of their self-field. Standard results are shown to be recovered for sufficiently small charge distributions.

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