The causal action in Minkowski space and surface layer integrals

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2020.091zbMath1458.83003arXiv1711.07058MaRDI QIDQ2219999

Felix Finster

Publication date: 21 January 2021

Published in: SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.07058

zbMATH Keywords

Dirac fieldspecial relativityMaxwell fieldcausal actionsurface layer integral

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continuum limits in quantum field theory (81T27) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Special relativity (83A05) PDEs in connection with relativity and gravitational theory (35Q75) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05) Variational principles of physics (49S05)

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