The road to Stueckelberg's covariant perturbation theory as illustrated by successive treatments of Compton scattering

DOI10.1016/S1355-2198(99)00021-0zbMATH Open1222.81013arXivphysics/9903023OpenAlexW1965772042WikidataQ127991834 ScholiaQ127991834MaRDI QIDQ720353FDOQ720353

Authors: Jan Lacki, Henri Ruegg, Valentino L. Telegdi 

Publication date: 14 October 2011

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: 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.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9903023

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) History of quantum theory (81-03)

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