Electrostatics in Stueckelberg-Horwitz-Piron Electrodynamics

TL;DR

This paper explores electrostatics within Stueckelberg-Horwitz electrodynamics, revealing how classical fields and phenomena like pair creation can be modeled in an extended 8D phase space framework that generalizes Maxwell's theory.

Contribution

It introduces a detailed analysis of electrostatics in Stueckelberg-Horwitz theory, including field solutions, application of 4D integral theorems, and a model for pair phenomena involving time reversal.

Findings

Derived the electrostatic field of a moving event and verified it satisfies field equations.

Applied 4D Gauss's and Stoke's theorems to generalized Coulomb fields.

Demonstrated pair creation as a time-reversal process in the model.

Abstract

In this paper, we study fundamental aspects of electrostatics as a special case in Stueckelberg-Horwitz electromagnetic theory. In this theory, spacetime events $x^\mu(\tau)$ evolve in an unconstrained 8-dimensional phase space, interacting through five $\tau$-dependent gauge fields induced by the current densities associated with their evolutions. The chronological time $\tau$ was introduced as an independent evolution parameter in order to free the laboratory clock $x^0$ to evolve alternately 'forward' and 'backward' in time according to the sign of the energy, thus providing a classical implementation of the Feynman-Stueckelberg interpretation of pair creation/annihilation. The resulting theory differs in its underlying mechanics from conventional electromagnetism, but coincides with Maxwell theory in an equilibrium limit. After a brief review of Stueckelberg-Horwitz electrodynamics, we obtain the field produced by an event in uniform motion and verify that it satisfies the field equations. We study this field in the rest frame of the event, where it depends explicitly on coordinate time $x^0$ and the parameter $\tau$, as well as spatial distance $R$. Calculating with this generalized Coulomb field, we demonstrate how Gauss's theorem and Stoke's theorem apply in 4D spacetime, and obtain the fields associated with a charged line and a charged sheet. Finally, we use the field of the charged sheet to study a static event in the vicinity of a potential barrier. In all of these cases, we observe a small transfer of mass from the field to the particle. It is seen that for an event in the field of an oppositely charged sheet of sufficient density, the event can reverse time direction, providing a specific model for pair phenomena.