Published October 15, 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Superstatistics approach to path integral for a relativistic particle

  • 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.

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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

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