Open AccessRELATIVISTIC NATURE OF COULOMBIAN INTERACTIONS
Author(s) -
T. S. Chang
Publication year - 1951
Publication title -
wuli xuebao
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 47
ISSN - 1000-3290
DOI - 10.7498/aps.8.123
Subject(s) - physics , observer (physics) , lorentz transformation , commutation , set (abstract data type) , quantum , theoretical physics , classical mechanics , quantum mechanics , computer science , voltage , programming language
Longitudinal waves arc eliminated from the operators Dμν Dρ in quantum electrodynamics, which govcrn the change of the wave functional as we change from one Lorentz observer to another, and the resulting operators are found to satisfy the same set of commutation relations as before. This reveals that a theory with explicit Coulombian interactions may be relativistic, contrary to the usual belief.