If You Use a Screen Reader
This content is available through Read Online (Free) program, which relies on page scans. Since scans are not currently available to screen readers, please contact JSTOR User Support for access. We'll provide a PDF copy for your screen reader.
Journal Article
The Commutation Laws of Relativistic Field Theory
R. E. Peierls
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Vol. 214, No. 1117 (Aug. 21, 1952), pp. 143-157
Published
by: Royal Society
https://www.jstor.org/stable/99080
Page Count: 15
You can always find the topics here!
Topics: Commutators, Lagrangian function, Field theory, Electric fields, Electromagnetic fields, Canon laws, Reasoning, Mathematical discontinuity, Canonical forms
Were these topics helpful?
Select the topics that are inaccurate.
Since scans are not currently available to screen readers, please contact JSTOR User Support for access. We'll provide a PDF copy for your screen reader.
Abstract
A definition of Poisson brackets is given which is related to the action principle, but does not require the introduction of canonical variables. This permits the laws for forming both the commutators of canonical theory and the anticommutators of Fermi-Dirac particles to be stated in a manifestly covariant way. Examples of the use of this method are given. The last section discusses tentatively the extension to the case of equations which cannot be written in canonical form.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences
© 1952 Royal Society