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MP: Fachverband Theoretische und Mathematische Grundlagen der Physik

MP 9: Quantenfeldtheorie II

MP 9.4: Talk

Thursday, March 3, 2016, 14:55–15:15, VMP6 HS B

The unknown sister of Noether's theorem — •Walter Smilga — Isardamm 135d, Geretsried, Germany

Noether's theorem has gained outstanding importance in theoretical particle physics, because it leads to strong conservation laws, such as the conservation of momentum and of angular momentum. Closely related to this theorem is another law that has an opposite effect: it requires the exchange of momentum between two particles that are described by an irreducible two-particle representation of the Poincaré group. Exchange of momentum determines an interaction. On closer inspection, this interaction is uniquely identified as the electromagnetic interaction. This finding sheds new light on the phenomenon of particle interaction in general and, in particular, on the perturbation algorithm of quantum electrodynamics.

Reference: iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/597/1/012069