The fields and self-force of a constantly accelerating spherical shell

DOI10.1098/RSPA.2013.0480MaRDI QIDQ2831326zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andrew M. Steane

Publication date 2 November 2016

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.5011

zbMATH Keywords

accelerated motionelectrically charged shellradiation reactionself-force

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Connections of harmonic functions with differential equations in two dimensions (31A35) Second-order elliptic systems (35J47) Motion of charged particles (78A35) Special relativity (83A05)

Abstract: We present a partial differential equation describing the electromagnetic potentials around a charge distribution undergoing rigid motion at constant proper acceleration, and obtain a set of solutions to this equation. These solutions are used to find the self-force exactly in a chosen case. The electromagnetic self-force for a spherical shell of charge of proper radius $R$ undergoing rigid motion at constant proper acceleration $a_0$ is, to high order approximation, $(2e^2{a}_0/R)su{m}_{n=0}^{i}nfty(a_{0}R{)}^{2n}((2n-1)(2n+1{)}^2(2n+3){)}^{-1}$, and this is conjectured to be exact.

Review text

The author considers the problem of self-force acting on a moving spherical shell of electrically charged medium with motion taken in one direction and with time-dependent speed. In a suitably chosen comoving frame of reference when the contribution of magnetic effects vanishes, the equation for the electric potential is treated in terms of series expansions, and exactness of the resulting solution is discussed.

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