Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
8201982 Annals of Physics 2015 10 Pages PDF
Abstract
We present two types of relativistic Lagrangians for the Lorentz-Dirac equation written in terms of an arbitrary world-line parameter. One of the Lagrangians contains an exponential damping function of the proper time and explicitly depends on the world-line parameter. Another Lagrangian includes additional cross-terms consisting of auxiliary dynamical variables and does not depend explicitly on the world-line parameter. We demonstrate that both the Lagrangians actually yield the Lorentz-Dirac equation with a source-like term.
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