A covariant canonical decomposition of the bosonic and spinning extended objects with electric charge
Abstract
By introducing a time-like vector field n(sup a) (hence a choice of an invariant time parameter (tau)) the action of a spinning extended object in d-dimensions can be covariantly decomposed into the analog of a center of mass part and a space-like internal part. In this way the action has the same form as that of a point particle which is convenient for the interpretation of the theory, its covariant canonical quantization, and for the definition of the form factors.
- Publication:
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Unknown
- Pub Date:
- October 1991
- Bibcode:
- 1991ccdb.rept.....B
- Keywords:
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- Bosons;
- Canonical Forms;
- Charged Particles;
- Covariance;
- Hamiltonian Functions;
- Quantum Chromodynamics;
- Quantum Theory;
- Transformations (Mathematics);
- Electric Charge;
- Form Factors;
- Atomic and Molecular Physics