A Lagrangian Formulation for the Abraham{lorentz{dirac Equation
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It is shown that a Lagrangian exists for the nonrelativistic version of the Abraham{Lorentz{Dirac equation. The method used is an easy modiication of the procedure used by Levi Civita a century ago to construct a Lagrangian for the damped harmonic oscillator. It is then shown how a trivial adaptation of the method allows also to give a Lagrangian for the corresponding relativistic equation in the case of one space dimension.
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