1996/07/16 by C. Furtado, Claudio Furtado, Fernando Moraes · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0264-9381/14/12/024
published as Class.Quant.Grav. 14 (1997) 3425-3432 · 9 pages, Latex
arxiv created 1996/07/16 · openalex publication_date 1997/12/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
Point sources, which are conical singularities in (2 + 1)-dimensional gravity, as well as the BTZ black hole, modify the global curvature of the space giving rise to self-interaction effects on classical fields. In this work we study the electrostatic self-interaction of a point charge either in the presence of a point mass source or a stationary BTZ black hole in (2 + 1)-dimensional gravity with a cosmological constant . Exact expressions are obtained for the self-force in all cases studied.