Uniformly Accelerating Charged Particles A Threat to the Equivalence Principle /

• Main Author: Lyle, Stephen N. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Fundamental Theories of Physics ; 158
• Subjects: Physics.; Gravitation.; Optics.; Electrodynamics.; Nuclear physics.; Particle and Nuclear Physics.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.; Optics and Electrodynamics.

There has been a long debate about whether uniformly accelerated charges should radiate electromagnetic energy and how one should describe their worldline through a flat spacetime, i.e., whether the Lorentz-Dirac equation is right. There are related questions in curved spacetimes, e.g., do different...