Published October 15, 2010
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Journal article
Superstatistics approach to path integral for a relativistic particle
Creators
- 1. ITP, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Arnimallee 14 D-14195 Berlin, Germany, and ICRANeT, Piazzale della Republica 1, 10-65122, Pescara (Italy)
- 2. FNSPE, Czech Technical University in Prague, Brehova 7, 115 19 Praha 1 (Czech Republic) and ITP, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Arnimallee 14 D-14195 Berlin (Germany)
Description
Superstatistics permits the calculation of the Feynman propagator of a relativistic particle in a novel way from a superstatistical average over nonrelativistic single-particle paths. We illustrate this for the Klein-Gordon particle in the Feshbach-Villars representation, and for the Dirac particle in the Schroedinger-Dirac representation. As a by-product we recover the worldline representation of Klein-Gordon and Dirac propagators, and discuss the role of the smearing distributions in fixing the reparametrization freedom. The emergent relativity picture that follows from our approach together with a novel representation of the Lorentz group for the Feshbach-Villars particle are also discussed.
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.82.085016;
- arXiv
- arXiv:1007.3922v2;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
- Journal Volume
- 82
- Journal Issue
- 8
- Journal Page Range
- p. 085016-085016.14
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDAQ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 42018542
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- DISTRIBUTION; KLEIN-GORDON EQUATION; LORENTZ GROUPS; PROPAGATOR; RELATIVISTIC RANGE
- Descriptors DEC
- DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ENERGY RANGE; EQUATIONS; FIELD EQUATIONS; LIE GROUPS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POINCARE GROUPS; SYMMETRY GROUPS; WAVE EQUATIONS
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2010 American Institute of Physics