Active versus passive transformations in the presence of a magnetic field

DOI10.1142/S0219887816500419MaRDI QIDQ2805561zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. A. Rosete-Álvarez, G. F. Torres del Castillo

Publication date 12 May 2016

Published in International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.02257

zbMATH Keywords

rotationsmagnetic fieldtranslations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electro- and magnetostatics (78A30) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Symmetries and conservation laws, reverse symmetries, invariant manifolds and their bifurcations, reduction for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H33) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

Abstract: It is shown that, when there is a magnetic field present, in the framework of classical or quantum mechanics, the active translations differ from the passive ones and that the canonical momentum is not the generator of them. It is also shown that an infinitesimal generator of passive translations or rotations exists only if the magnetic field is invariant under these transformations.

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