Published 1990
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Is light cone physics merely a change of coordinates?
Description
The question in the title is an outstanding question which first appeared implicitly in the classic 1949 paper of Dirac on Light cone physics, and later explicitly in the 1978 paper of Leutwyler and Stern. Physical causality requires that if the initial state of a system is specified everywhere on a spacelike surface, then the dynamical laws governing the system must be able to predict the state of the system at any other spacelike surface. This specification of the state of a system on a spacelike surface is necessary in order to ensure physical independence of each point on the surface
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Title
- Proceedings of the Hampton University Graduate Studies at the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (HUGS at CEBAF)
- Imprint Pagination
- 205 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 180-195.
- Report number
- DOE/ER/40150--185
Conference
- Title
- 5. annual Hampton University graduate studies at the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility summer school.
- Dates
- 29 May - 16 Jun 1990.
- Place
- Hampton, VA (United States).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 24051670
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- ANALYTICAL SOLUTION; CAUSALITY; CEBAF ACCELERATOR; COORDINATES; DIRAC EQUATION; DYNAMICS; EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; HAMILTONIANS; LIGHT CONE; MATRICES; POINCARE GROUPS; RELATIVISTIC RANGE; SPACE-TIME
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCELERATORS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ENERGY RANGE; FIELD EQUATIONS; LIE GROUPS; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MECHANICS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; QUANTUM OPERATORS; SYMMETRY GROUPS; WAVE EQUATIONS
Optional Information
- Secondary number(s)
- CONF-9005104--.