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Liénard–Wiechert potentials in even dimensions Metin Gürses and Özgür Sarıoğlu Citation: J. Math. Phys. 44, 4672 (2003); doi: 10.1063/1.1613040 View online: /10.1063/1.1613040 View Table of Contents: /resource/1/JMAPAQ/v44/i10 Published by the American Institute of Physics. Additional information on J. Math. Phys. Journal Homepage: / Journal Information: /about/about_the_journal Top downloads: /features/most_downloaded Information for Authors: /authors Downloaded 07 May 2013 to 6. This article is copyrighted as indicated in the abstract. Reuse of AIP content is subject to the terms at: /about/rights_and_permissions JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS VOLUME 44, NUMBER 10 OCTOBER 2003 ´ Lienard–Wiechert potentials in even dimensions ¨ a) Metin Gurses Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, Bilkent University, 06800, Ankara, Turkey b) ¨ ¨ ˘ Ozgur Sarıoglu Department of Physics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Middle East Technical University, 06531, Ankara, Turkey Received 29 March 2003; accepted 21 July 2003 The motion of point charged particles is considered in an even dimensional Minkowski space–time. The potential functions corresponding to the massless sca- lar and the Maxwell fields are derived algorithmically. It is shown that in all even dimensions particles lose energy due to acceleration. © 2003 American Institute of