130 research outputs found
Flat wormholes from straight cosmic strings
Special multi-cosmic string metrics are analytically extended to describe
configurations of Wheeler-Misner wormholes and ordinary cosmic strings. I
investigate in detail the case of flat, asymptotically Minkowskian,
Wheeler-Misner wormhole spacetimes generated by two cosmic strings, each with
tension .Comment: 5 pages, latex, no figure
Breathing Relativistic Rotators and Fundamental Dynamical Systems
Recently, it was shown, that the mechanical model of a massive spinning
particle proposed by Kuzenko, Lyakhovich and Segal in 1994, which is also the
fundamental relativistic rotator rediscovered independently 15 years later by
Staruszkiewicz in quite a different context, is defective as a dynamical
system, that is, its Cauchy problem is not well posed. This dynamical system is
fundamental, since its mass and spin are parameters, not arbitrary constants of
motion, which is a classical counterpart of quantum irreducibility.
It is therefore desirable to find other objects which, apart from being
fundamental, would also have well posed Cauchy problem. For that purpose, a
class of breathing rotators is considered. A breathing rotator consists of a
single null vector associated with position and moves in accordance with some
relativistic laws of motion. Surprisingly, breathing rotators which are
fundamental, are also defective as dynamical systems. More generally, it has
been shown, that the necessary condition for a breathing rotator to be
similarly defective, is functional dependence of its Casimir invariants of the
Poincar{\'e} group
Infrared limit in external field scattering
Scattering of electrons/positrons by external classical electromagnetic wave
packet is considered in infrared limit. In this limit the scattering operator
exists and produces physical effects, although the scattering cross-section is
trivial.Comment: 12 pages; published version; minor corrections; comments adde
Spinor particle. An indeterminacy in the motion of relativistic dynamical systems with separately fixed mass and spin
We give an argument that a broad class of geometric models of spinning
relativistic particles with Casimir mass and spin being separately fixed
parameters, have indeterminate worldline (while other spinning particles have
definite worldline). This paradox suggests that for a consistent description of
spinning particles something more general than a worldline concept should be
used. As a particular case, we study at the Lagrangian level the Cauchy problem
for a spinor particle and then, at the constrained Hamiltonian level, we
generalize our result to other particles.Comment: 10 pages, 1 figur
Covariant EBK quantization of the electromagnetic two-body problem
We discuss a method to transform the covariant Fokker action into an implicit
two-degree-of-freedom Hamiltonian for the electromagnetic two-body problem with
arbitrary masses. This dynamical system appeared 100 years ago and it was
popularized in the 1940's by the still incomplete Wheeler and Feynman program
to quantize it as a means to overcome the divergencies of perturbative QED. Our
finite-dimensional implicit Hamiltonian is closed and involves no series
expansions. The Hamiltonian formalism is then used to motivate an EBK
quantization based on the classical trajectories with a non-perturbative
formula that predicts energies free of infinities.Comment: 21 page
Stiff Stability of the Hydrogen atom in dissipative Fokker electrodynamics
We introduce an ad-hoc electrodynamics with advanced and retarded
Lienard-Wiechert interactions plus the dissipative Lorentz-Dirac
self-interaction force. We study the covariant dynamical system of the
electromagnetic two-body problem, i.e., the hydrogen atom. We perform the
linear stability analysis of circular orbits for oscillations perpendicular to
the orbital plane. In particular we study the normal modes of the linearized
dynamics that have an arbitrarily large imaginary eigenvalue. These large
eigenvalues are fast frequencies that introduce a fast (stiff) timescale into
the dynamics. As an application, we study the phenomenon of resonant
dissipation, i.e., a motion where both particles recoil together in a drifting
circular orbit (a bound state), while the atom dissipates center-of-mass energy
only. This balancing of the stiff dynamics is established by the existence of a
quartic resonant constant that locks the dynamics to the neighborhood of the
recoiling circular orbit. The resonance condition quantizes the angular momenta
in reasonable agreement with the Bohr atom. The principal result is that the
emission lines of quantum electrodynamics (QED) agree with the prediction of
our resonance condition within one percent average deviation.Comment: 1 figure, Notice that Eq. (34) of the Phys. Rev. E paper has a typo;
it is missing the square Brackets of eq. (33), find here the correct e
On the structure of the supplementary series of unitary irreducible representations of the proper, ortochronous Lorentz group
Representations from the supplementary series of unitary irreducible representations of the proper, ortochronous Lorentz group are labelled by
the parameter z , 0 < z < 1 . There are qualitative differences between
representations with 0 < z < 1/2 and those with 1/2 < z < 1 . Two such differences are described in this paper: the probability density of
parabolic rotations in a spherically symmetric state is singular at the origin for 0 < z < 1/2 but regular for 1/2 < z < 1 ; the Casimir operator of
the little group, which preserves a space-like vector, has for 0 < z < 1/2 a bound state which disappears for 1/2 < z < 1.Зображення з додаткової серії унітарних незвідних зображень власної ортохронної групи Лоренца характеризуються параметром z , 0 < z < 1 . Існують якісні відмінності між зображеннями із 0 < z < 1
та із 1/2 < z < 1 . Дві такі відмінності описано у статті: густина ймовірности параболічних поворотів у сферично-симетричному стані синґулярна в початку координат для 0 < z < 1 , але реґулярна для
1/2 < z < 1 ; оператор Казимира малої групи, яка зберігає просторово-подібний вектор, має для 0 < z < 1 зв’язаний стан, який зникає, коли 1/2 < z < 1
The regular cosmic string in Born-Infeld gravity
It is shown that Born-Infeld gravity --a high energy deformation of Einstein
gravity-- removes the singularities of a cosmic string. The respective vacuum
solution results to be free of conical singularity and closed timelike curves.
The space ends at a minimal circle where the curvature invariants vanish; but
this circle cannot be reached in a finite proper time.Comment: 4 pages, submitted to Proceedings of Spanish Relativity Meeting 2010
(ERE2010, Granada, Spain
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