TITLE:
A Classical Complete Action for a System of Small-Point Massive Charged Particles in General Relativity
AUTHORS:
Gonzalo Ares de Parga, Adriana Avalos-Vargas
KEYWORDS:
General Relativity, Classical Electrodynamics, Self-Action
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Modern Physics,
Vol.6 No.10,
August
28,
2015
ABSTRACT: A classical action which describes the motion of a system of small-point massive charged particles including the existence of the electromagnetic and gravitational self-forces, Maxwell equations and Einstein field equations is presented. The action possesses the particularity of being a functional of the variables zi (τi), the trajectory of the i-particle, Aα (x), the electromagnetic 4-potential, and gαβ(x), the metric tensor. It is also considered that the metric tensor gαβ (x) and the potential Aα (x) are not functions of the trajectory of each particle when the variations with respect to the trajectories of the particles are done. That is, the action is complete. The electromagnetic and the gravitational self-forces are analyzed.