Theoretical study of superluminal sources of electromagnetic radiation boosted after the discovery of Cherenkov–Vavilov radiation. Later, the way to create fictitious sources moving superluminally was suggested. Different approaches have been proposed for the research of the distribution of the potential and the fields radiated by the superluminally moving charges. The simplest idealized cases of uniform rectilinear motion of the charge and of the charge rotating with constant angular speed open opportunities of a detailed analysis of the fields and potentials. We use Fourier series to calculate the potential distribution of point charge rotating with constant speed. An obvious advantage of this approach is that one no longer needs to calculate the retarded positions of the charge. The number of the retarded positions depends on the observation point and increases as the ratio ωR/c rises, where c is the speed of light, ω is the rotation frequency, and R is the radius of the circle. We demonstrate that the equation of Mach surface can be obtained basing on the asymptotic expansion of the potential. We analyze some characteristics of the potential basing on this asymptotic expansion.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)375-385
Number of pages11
JournalReports on Mathematical Physics
Volume85
Issue number3
Early online date30 Jun 2020
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020

    Scopus subject areas

  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
  • Mathematical Physics

    Research areas

  • Mach surface, stationary phase approximation, superluminally moving charge

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