Journal of High Energy Physics (Jan 2024)

Non-Lorentzian expansions of the Lorentz force and kinematical algebras

  • José Luis V. Cerdeira,
  • Joaquim Gomis,
  • Axel Kleinschmidt

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2024)023
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2024, no. 1
pp. 1 – 31

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Abstract We consider non-Lorentzian expansions, Galilean and Carrollian, of the Lorentz force equation in which both the particle position and the electro-magnetic field are expanded. There are two well-known limits in the case of a constant field, called electric and magnetic, that are studied separately. We show that the resulting equations of motion follow equivalently from considering a non-linear realisation of a certain infinite-dimensional algebras.

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