Léon Rosenfeld and the Challenge of the Vanishing Momentum in Quantum Electrodynamics (2009)
Salisbury, Donald (Author)
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
Volume: 40
Pages: 363--373
Publication date: 2009
Language: English
Edition Details: Part of a special Issue: Proceedings from the HQ2 Conference
Léon Rosenfeld published in 1930 the first systematic Hamiltonian approach to Lagrangian models that possess a local gauge symmetry. The application of this formalism to theories with local internal symmetries, such as electromagnetism in interaction with charged matter fields, is valid and complete, and predates by two decades the work by Dirac and Bergmann. Although he provided a group-theoretical justification for gauge fixing procedures that had just been implemented in the first expositions of quantum electrodynamics by Heisenberg and Pauli, and also by Fermi, his contribution went largely unnoticed. This lack of impact seems to be related to a generalized disenchantment with second quantization in the 1930s and 1940s.
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