Energy Radiation of Charged Particles in Conformally Flat Spacetimes

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dc.creatorParrott, Stephen
dc.date1993-08-22
dc.date2003-04-20
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T08:59:21Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T08:59:21Z
dc.descriptionOriginal abstract: Consider the worldline of a charged particle in a static spacetime. Contraction of the time-translation Killing field with the retarded electromagnetic energy-momentum tensor gives a conserved electromagnetic energy vector which can be used to define the radiated electromagnetic energy. This note points out that for a conformally flat spacetime, the radiated energy is the same as for a flat spacetime (i.e. Minkowski space). This appears to be inconsistent with an equation of motion for such particles derived by DeWitt and Brehme and later corrected by Hobbs [End of original abstract] New abstract: Same as old abstract with last sentence deleted. The body of the paper is the same as previously. A new Appendix 2 has been added discussing implications to the previous arguments of recent work of Sonego (J. Math. Phys. 40 (1999), 3381-3394) and of Quinn and Wald (Phys. Rev. D 60 (1999), gr-qc/9610053).
dc.description21 pages, LaTeX, 3 figures, also LaTeX. The body of the paper, originally posted in 1993, is unchanged. A 6-page appendix was added in 2000. It discusses implications to the original arguments of subsequent work of Sonego (J. Math. Phys. 40(1999), 3381-3394, and of Quinn and Wald (Phys. Rev. D 60(1999). This latest revision involves only minor corrections and stylistic changes
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9308023
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9308023
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/147680
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.titleEnergy Radiation of Charged Particles in Conformally Flat Spacetimes
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