journal club on aspects of information, quantum theory, and gravity
02 Aug 2021
The works by Rohrlich and Boulware shed a lot of light onto the problem of electromagnetic radiation produced by point-like charges. We will discuss the papers in historical order, first by defining in a covariant fashion the momentum and energy of the field produced by a moving charge, to then establish a criteria to define radiation. After this we move to analyze the equivalence principle as a whole, providing a rigorous formulation of it and its implications for uniformly accelerated charges. Finally we tie up all of this concepts by studying the reason of why the co-accelerated observers will not report any radiation coming from the charge.