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In the framework of classical electromagnetism, a charge however accelerated with respect to an inertial frame radiates energy, in any circumstance. Regarding the energy as made of photons, the hypothesis is here introduced that the emission of a photon is only possible as a result of a change of the energy of the charge, which requires an energy-work exchange with the accelerating field. On such an hypothesis an elementary impulsive-dissipative model for the photon emission is constructed, in the framework of special relativity, in which no energy radiation is emitted from a charge in a central Coulomb field uniformly describing a circular orbit.
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Piazzese, F.I. On the Energy Radiation from an Accelerated Charge. Foundations of Physics 33, 1223–1236 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025679008604
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025679008604