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

DOI10.1016/S1355-2198(99)00021-0MaRDI QIDQ720353zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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)

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

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)

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.

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