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X.—On the Invariance of Quantized Field Equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

K. Fuchs
K. Fuchs
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University of Edinburgh
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Heisenberg and Pauli (1929) developed a general scheme for the quantization of a field, if the field equations can be derived from a variation principle,

Here za denotes the field variables, L is the Lagrangian, and

The scheme of Heisenberg and Pauli is known to be Lorentz invariant. It is the purpose of this paper to show that it is also invariant with regard to all co-ordinate transformations allowed by the general theory of relativity. The method adopted to prove this is that used by Infeld (1937) and Pryce (1937) to prove the invariance of the “New Field Equations” against Lorentz transformations.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 59 , 1940 , pp. 109 - 121
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1940

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