An extension of Eliezer's theorem on the Abraham-Lorentz-Dirac equation

Authors
Citation
A. Carati, An extension of Eliezer's theorem on the Abraham-Lorentz-Dirac equation, J PHYS A, 34(30), 2001, pp. 5937-5944
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS A-MATHEMATICAL AND GENERAL
ISSN journal
03054470 → ACNP
Volume
34
Issue
30
Year of publication
2001
Pages
5937 - 5944
Database
ISI
SICI code
0305-4470(20010803)34:30<5937:AEOETO>2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
In 1943 Eliezer showed that, according to the Abraham-Lorentz-Dirac equatio n, a point charge cannot fall on a Centre of attractive Coulombian forces, if one considers only motions constrained on a line. In other words, the Ab raham-Lorentz-Dirac equation on a line does not admit solutions x(t) such t hat x --> 0 for t --> t(c), with either a finite or infinite t, In this pap er it is shown that this remain true for the full three-dimensional problem .