The point-charge self-energy in a nonminimal Lorentz violating Maxwell Electrodynamics

Abstract

In this letter we study the self-energy of a point-like charge for the electromagnetic field in a non minimal Lorentz symmetry breaking scenario in a $n+1$ dimensional space time. We consider two variations of a model where the Lorentz violation is caused by a background vector $d^{\nu }$ that appears in a higher derivative interaction. We restrict our attention to the case where $d^{\mu }$ is a time-like background vector, namely $d^2=d^{\mu }{d}_{\mu }>0$, and we verify that the classical self-energy is finite for any odd spatial dimension $n$ and diverges for even $n$. We also make some comments regarding obstacles in the quantization of the proposed model.

arXiv comment6 pages, published in EPL 122 (2018) 31002

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