The Road to Stueckelberg's Covariant Perturbation Theory as Illustrated by Successive Treatments of Compton Scattering
| Autor: | Henri Ruegg, Jan Lacki, V.L. Telegdi |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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Physics
History Physics - History and Philosophy of Physics Compton scattering General Physics and Astronomy FOS: Physical sciences ddc:500.2 Physics::History of Physics Formalism (philosophy of mathematics) History and Philosophy of Science Quantum electrodynamics History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph) Covariant transformation Perturbation theory (quantum mechanics) General Theoretical Physics Mathematical physics |
| Zdroj: | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. B, Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, Vol. 30, No 4 (1999) pp. 457-518 |
| ISSN: | 1355-2198 |
| DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.physics/9903023 |
| Popis: | We review the history of the road to a manifestly covariant perturbative calculus within quantum electrodynamics from the early semi-classical results of the mid-twenties to the complete formalism of Stueckelberg in 1934. We chose as our case study the calculation of the cross-section of the Compton effect. We analyse Stueckelberg's paper extensively. This is our first contribution to a study of his fundamental contributions to the theoretical physics of twentieth century. Comment: This paper is a "working-physicist" version of a paper to be published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics |
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