General description of electromagnetic radiation processes based on instantaneous charge acceleration in `endpoints'

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We present a new methodology for calculating the electromagnetic radiation from accelerated charged particles.

• Our formulation --- the `endpoint formulation' --- combines numerous results developed in the literature in relation to radiation arising from particle acceleration using a complete, and completely general, treatment.
• We do this by describing particle motion via a series of discrete, instantaneous acceleration events, or `endpoints', with each such event being treated as a source of emission.
• This method implicitly allows for particle creation/destruction, and is suited to direct numerical implementation in either the time- or frequency-domains.