Phys. Rev. Lett. 61, 1903–1905 (1988)Resolution of Causality Violation in the Classical Radiation ReactionReceived 7 April 1988; published in the issue dated 24 October 1988 We show that the usual derivations of the Lorentz-Dirac equation are not valid at points where the charge's path is a nonanalytic function of time, and that such points inevitably appear when the applied force is freely alterable in the future, i.e, when one considers questions of causality. This enables us to avoid causality violation in classical radiation reaction, making the usual hedge of quantum effects at small distances quite unnecessary. © 1988 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.61.1903
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.61.1903
PACS:
03.50.De
See AlsoComment: Charles J. Goebel, Comment on ‘‘Resolution of causality violation in the classical radiation reaction’’, Phys. Rev. Lett. 62, 3010 (1989). |
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