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CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY
Volume 26, Issue 15, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/26/15/155015
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- NSF [PHY04-56619]
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Building upon previous results in scalar field theory, a formalism is developed that uses generalized Killing fields to understand the behavior of extended charges interacting with their own electromagnetic fields. New notions of effective linear and angular momenta are identified, and their evolution equations are derived exactly in arbitrary (but fixed) curved spacetimes. A slightly modified form of the Detweiler-Whiting axiom that a charge's motion should only be influenced by the so-called regular component of its self-field is shown to follow very easily. It is exact in some interesting cases and approximate in most others. Explicit equations describing the center-of-mass motion, spin angular momentum and changes in mass of a small charge are also derived in a particular limit. The chosen approximations-although standard-incorporate dipole and spin forces that do not appear in the traditional Abraham-Lorentz-Dirac or Dewitt-Brehme equations. They have, however, been previously identified in the test body limit.
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