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An energy bound deduced from the vanishing of the radiation reaction force during uniform acceleration

1998/11/10 by Rafael D. Sorkin, Sorkin, Rafael D. · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Classical Physics (physics.class-ph) #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #gr-qc #hep-th #physics.class-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9811030

4 pages, plainTeX. New title, appendix added, small corrections and additions. Source for most up to date version: http://www.physics.syr.edu/~sorkin

openalex publication_date 1998/11/10 · arxiv created 2004/02/04 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We deduce from energy conservation a lower bound on the mass of any system capable of imparting a constant acceleration to a charged body. We also point out a connection between this bound and the so called dominant energy condition of general relativity.

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