Phys. Rev. D 70, 124016 (2004) [7 pages]Scalar self-force on a static particle in Schwarzschild spacetime using the massive field approachReceived 5 October 2004; published 14 December 2004 I use the recently developed massive field approach to calculate the scalar self-force on a static particle in a Schwarzschild spacetime. In this approach the scalar self-force is obtained from the difference between the (massless) scalar field, and an auxiliary massive scalar field combined with a certain limiting process. By applying this approach to a static particle in Schwarzschild I show that the scalar self-force vanishes in this case. This result conforms with a previous analysis [ A. G. Wiseman Phys. Rev. D 61 084014 (2000)]. © 2004 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.70.124016
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.70.124016
PACS:
04.25.–g
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