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6 Radiation Reaction 220<br />

6.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220<br />

6.2 Previous analyses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226<br />

6.2.1 The Bhabha–Corben analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226<br />

6.2.2 The Barut–Unal analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228<br />

6.3 Infinitesimal rigid bodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232<br />

6.3.1 Orders of expansions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232<br />

6.3.2 Electromagnetic moment densities . . . . . . . . . . . . 233<br />

6.3.3 Sending and receiving constituents . . . . . . . . . . . 235<br />

6.4 The sum and difference variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237<br />

6.4.1 The six-dimensional hypervolume . . . . . . . . . . . . 240<br />

6.4.2 Symmetry arguments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243<br />

6.4.3 Explicit inner integrals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243<br />

6.4.4 Explicit outer integrals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246<br />

6.4.5 Quadratic inner integrals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247<br />

6.4.6 Angular outer integrals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252<br />

6.4.7 Is there an easier way? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254<br />

6.5 Retarded kinematical quantities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254<br />

6.5.1 The retarded radius vector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254<br />

6.5.2 Length of expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255<br />

6.5.3 Final expression for the retarded radius vector . . . . . 256<br />

6.5.4 The retarded normal vector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256<br />

6.5.5 Retarded velocity and derivatives . . . . . . . . . . . . 257<br />

6.5.6 Constituent retarded FitzGerald spins . . . . . . . . . 258<br />

6.5.7 Computer algebra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259<br />

6.5.8 Gamma factor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259<br />

6.5.9 Modified retarded normal vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . 260<br />

6.5.10 Retarded Doppler factor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260<br />

6.5.11 Final redshift expression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261<br />

6.5.12 Retarded field expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261<br />

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