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Published January 7, 2000 | public
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Self-force on static charges in Schwarzschild spacetime

Burko, Lior M.

Abstract

We study the self-forces acting on static scalar and electric test charges in the spacetime of a Schwarzschild black hole. The analysis is based on a direct, local calculation of the self-forces via mode decomposition and on two independent regularization procedures: a spatially extended particle model method and on a mode-sum regularization prescription. In all cases we find excellent agreement with the known exact results.

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Copyright © Institute of Physics and IOP Publishing Limited 2000. Received 25 May 1999, in final form 26 October 1999, Print publication: Issue 1 (7 January 2000) I have benefited from useful discussions with Jolien Creighton. I thank Amos Ori for many stimulating discussions and for letting me use his results before their publication. This research was supported by NSF grant AST-9731698 and NASA grant NAG5-6840.

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