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Phys. Rev. D 75, 104011 (2007) [14 pages]

Singular field used to calculate the self-force on nonspinning and spinning particles

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Eirini Messaritaki*
Department of Physics, University of Florida, P.O. Box 118440, Gainesville, Florida 32611-8440, USA and Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, P.O. Box 413, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53201, USA

Received 27 February 2007; published 15 May 2007

The singular field of a point charge has recently been described in terms of a new Green’s function of curved spacetime. This singular field plays an important role in the calculation of the self-force acting upon the particle. We provide a method for calculating the singular field and a catalog of expansions of the singular field associated with the geodesic motion of monopole and dipole sources for scalar, electromagnetic, and gravitational fields. These results can be used, for example, to calculate the effects of the self-force acting on a particle as it moves through spacetime.

© 2007 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.75.104011
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.75.104011
PACS:
04.30.Db, 04.70.Bw

*Electronic address: emess@caltech.edu

Current address: California Institute of Technology, MS 18-34, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

 
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