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Finite-time weak/slow charged probe correspondence
Finite-time comparison for a massive charged test probe on a stationary weak metric with the exact C2 remainder bounds and prescribed electric/magnetic scalings of the mathematical supplier, with a smooth closed background two-form and the adopted action on short local-potential curve segments. It requires alpha nonzero, a sufficiently small parameter cutoff fixed by the uniform bounds, uniformly small speed, existing trajectories, common compact convex state containment in K x R3 and finite scaled duration. It imposes neither the inhomogeneous Maxwell equation nor Einstein equations and constructs no fully coupled background family.
Statement
Use the charged-probe action sector of the fixed-background model of Separately adopted fixed-background Maxwell and charged probes and let , with constant , constant charge , length scale , and speed constant . When the Lorentz-force form is obtained from the adopted action, the inherited hypothesis of that exact action-equivalence theorem is assumed; no stronger choice axiom is used. In SI, , , and ; , , , , and are dimensionless. Choose a cutoff sufficiently small in terms of the displayed uniform bounds below, as required by Controlled weak/slow charged test trajectory comparison, and fix . On an open , let be compact and convex, use length coordinates , , and suppose the prescribed metric is smooth, stationary and Lorentzian on a neighborhood of , with future timelike. For a smooth dimensionless and some fixed finite , assume for every spatial multi-index with that
where , , and . Prescribe smooth stationary dimensionless fields with values and first derivatives bounded on , and a smooth real closed two-form on the same background neighborhood, with and SI components , and
Closure ensures local potentials, not a global potential: in each sufficiently small open coordinate ball about a curve point, use the smooth radial primitive of Radial primitives for closed one- and two-forms as the supplied with . Adopt fixed-endpoint action stationarity only on sufficiently short finite curve segments contained in such a ball, as in Separately adopted fixed-background Maxwell and charged probes and Stationary charged action and Lorentz force. There is no assumption that the whole trajectory lies in a single potential domain, that is globally exact, or that the local potentials are stationary. No inhomogeneous Maxwell or Einstein equation is imposed on this prescribed background. The dimensionless comparison trajectory satisfies , on , where primes denote derivatives, , and . Write for the sum of the absolute values of the six components and for its induced operator norm, as in Controlled weak/slow charged test trajectory comparison. Let the six-component comparison vector field have derivative norm at most on a compact convex state set containing both scaled trajectories throughout .
Suppose a future-directed proper-time worldline exists through this finite interval, obeys this local action model (equivalently the external Lorentz law on each such segment), has coordinate speed , has its scaled state remain in , and has the same initial scaled data as the comparison trajectory. Set and . Then for some finite depending only on the displayed uniform bounds, the exact scaled motion obeys
and consequently
This is a finite-duration conditional model prediction. It does not construct the trajectories, prove common compact containment, solve Maxwell's equations for the prescribed field, or establish a coupled Einstein–Maxwell family. The magnetic scaling may violate a coupled stress hierarchy unless additional matter scales are supplied.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The fixed prescribed metric and field model of Separately adopted fixed-background Maxwell and charged probes, the uniform metric and field bounds above, the sufficiently small cutoff required by [F2], , a proper-time Lorentz-force curve satisfying the speed bound, and both scaled trajectories' existence and containment in the compact convex set with matched initial data on . The smooth background two-form is closed, so smooth potentials are supplied by the radial formula on short coordinate-ball segments; no global potential is assumed. When the Lorentz-force form is obtained from the adopted action, assume the exact inherited hypothesis of that action-equivalence result; no stronger choice axiom is used.
Separately adopted fixed-background Maxwell and charged probes: the background metric and external Maxwell field are prescribed independently; the massive probe is governed on each finite local-potential segment by the adopted action and, under its exact equivalence theorem hypotheses including its stated assumption, by . This is countable choice only, not arbitrary-index choice. No inhomogeneous Maxwell or Einstein equation for this background is assumed; the closure needed for local potentials is explicit.
Controlled weak/slow charged test trajectory comparison: under the exact metric-remainder bounds, field scaling, , speed bound, derivative bound on a compact convex , and existing scaled trajectories contained in with matched initial data stated there, the exact coordinate equation has an acceleration remainder and yields the displayed finite-time error bound after is chosen sufficiently small in terms of its uniform bounds. Its theorem is mathematical and conditional; it does not assert a physical Maxwell/Einstein solution.
Radial primitives for closed one- and two-forms: on an open coordinate domain star-shaped about , every smooth real closed two-form has the smooth primitive , with . This is a local formula and does not require global exactness.
Stationary charged action and Lorentz force: under , on a finite future-timelike proper-time segment contained in a supplied local potential domain with , stationarity of the adopted fixed-endpoint external charged action is equivalent to . It asserts no global potential or trajectory existence.
All uniform bounds, proper-time curve hypotheses, and finite-interval existence and containment in in the Statement are assumptions. They are not consequences of the test-field postulate.
Proof
At each interior point of the proper-time curve, choose a sufficiently small coordinate ball in the open prescribed-background region, centered at . The form is smooth and closed there, so the explicit radial formula [F3] supplies a smooth real with . Continuity of the curve places a sufficiently short finite segment about that point in . Its fixed-endpoint local action variations have the regularity and supplied-potential hypotheses of [F4]; the adopted stationarity in [F1] and the stated assumption therefore give the Lorentz law at that point. Applying this pointwise proves the force equation along the curve; continuity gives it at its finite interval endpoints. On overlapping potential balls the same equation depends only on , so no global action or potential gluing is used, and no extra choice principle is introduced. No bound or stationarity assumption on the potentials enters the comparison estimate. The metric expansion, stationary prescribed field, SI components, nonzero , speed bound, derivative bound on the compact convex state set , and existence/containment assumptions in [A1] match the hypotheses of [F2] exactly: because , both scaled positions stay in , where the uniform metric and field bounds apply; in particular the field is not assumed to satisfy Maxwell or Einstein equations.
Applying the complete conditional mathematical result [F2] to these inputs gives the scaled coordinate equation with and, because the initial data match and both scaled curves remain in the compact convex set , the stated finite-time comparison bound. Those conclusions inherit all the existence, containment and prescribed-background qualifications in [A1]; no infinite-duration or coupled-solution claim follows.
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Sources
- H. S. Reall, General Relativity, Cambridge Part III lecture notes, 12 October 2022 revision, complete 125-page notes, §6.2
- S. M. Carroll, Lecture Notes on General Relativity, arXiv:gr-qc/9712019v1 (1997), complete 238-page lecture notes
- Eric Poisson, Adam Pound and Ian Vega, The Motion of Point Particles in Curved Spacetime, author manuscript arXiv:1102.0529v3 (2011), complete 162-page review