Gravitational and electromagnetic memory

Abstract

We present a unified investigation of memory effect in Einstein-Maxwell theory. We specify two types of memory effect, a velocity kick and a position displacement, by examining the motion of a single free falling charged test particle. Our result recovers the two known gravitational memory effect formulas and the two known electromagnetic memory effect formulas.

arXiv commentv3: major revision, linear and nonlinear contributions to the memory identified, refs. added

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