ON THE FORMULATION OF INITIAL-VALUE PROBLEMS FOR SYSTEMS CONSISTING OF RELATIVISTIC PARTICLES

摘要

We discuss questions related to the well-posedness of problems on the motion of relativistic many-body systems. For one-dimensional relativistic motion of N similar charges, we prove that an ordinary Cauchy problem usual in Newton mechanics can be stated; this is done in the framework of microscopic Maxwell-Lorentz electrodynamics (including a model with self-action) or Wheeler-Feynman theory.