I investigate the self-force acting on static scalar and electric charges in Schwarzschild-de Sitter and Schwarzschild-Anti-de Sitter spacetimes. The self-force occurs when a charged particle's field interacts with the curvature of spacetime so that the particle interacts with its own field. Because the field of a point particle is singular at the location of the particle, it is necessary to decompose the field into a regular part responsible for the self-force and a singular part that does not contribute to the self-force. To do this, I use the mode-sum regularization scheme introduced by Barack and Ori, in which the field is decomposed into a sum over modes, and the singular part is removed from each mode using so-called regularization parameters.
I find that the electrostatic self-force in Schwarzschild-de Sitter and Schwarzschild-Anti-de Sitter behaves similarly to Schwarzschild self-force near the black hole, but can deviate strongly at larger distances. This is especially true in Schwarzschild-Anti-de Sitter, where the self-force is seen to increase linearly with distance. I provide an explanation for this behaviour using conformal transformations. A particular feature evident in Schwarzschild-Anti-de Sitter is that the self-force can become negative (attractive) at small distances when the Schwarzschild radius and the cosmological length scale are of a similar order. I find that the scalar self-force in Schwarzschild-de Sitter can not actually be computed, and in Schwarzschild-Anti-de Sitter the asymptotic behaviour is similar to its electrostatic counterpart.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:OGU.10214/7383 |
| Date | 21 August 2013 |
| Creators | Kuchar, Joseph |
| Contributors | Poisson, Eric |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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