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Single-Particle Electrodynamics - Assassination Science

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Appendix D<br />

Retarded Fields Verification<br />

D.1 Introduction<br />

In this appendix, we demonstrate the veracity of the manifestly covariant<br />

retarded dipole fields (5.69) derived in Section 5.4.5, by showing that they<br />

agree completely with the explicit expressions obtained in 1976 by Cohn and<br />

Wiebe [54], based on the general expression for the four-potential found in<br />

1967 by Kolsrud and Leer [124]. This task is non-trivial, as the conventions<br />

and notation used by Cohn and Wiebe are significantly different from those<br />

used throughout this thesis.<br />

D.2 The Cohn–Wiebe field expressions<br />

In this section we list the expressions given for the retarded fields exactly<br />

as given by Cohn and Wiebe [54]. The conversion to our conventions and<br />

notation will be performed in later sections.<br />

Cohn and Wiebe start with the standard electric charge (or “non-spin”)<br />

retarded potential in the Lorentz gauge,<br />

A µ n.s. = − eV µ<br />

R α V α<br />

,<br />

(D.1)<br />

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