Radiation Reaction in a Lorentz-Violating Electrodynamics

TL;DR

This paper investigates how Lorentz violation affects radiation reaction forces in electrodynamics and finds that such violations do not alter the radiation reaction, but do cause anisotropy in electromagnetic mass.

Contribution

It demonstrates that Lorentz violation does not modify the radiation reaction force, revealing the robustness of this aspect of electrodynamics under Lorentz symmetry breaking.

Findings

Radiation reaction remains unchanged despite Lorentz violation.

Electromagnetic mass exhibits anisotropy due to Lorentz violation.

No modification to the radiation reaction force was observed.

Abstract

We study radiation reaction in a Lorentz violating electrodynamics [1]. We explore the possible modification whatsoever present in the radiation reaction force experienced by an accelerating charge in the modified Maxwell theory. However it turns out that radiation reaction receives no change due to Lorentz violation whereas electromagnetic mass manifests anisotropy.