Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Musielak, Z.E.
• Fry, J.L.

Titel

Physical theories in Galilean space-time and the origin of Schroedinger-like equations

Ist Teil von

• Annals of physics, 2009-02, Vol.324 (2)

Ort / Verlag

United States

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• A method to develop physical theories of free particles in space-time with the Galilean metric is presented. The method is based on a Principle of Analyticity and a Principle of Relativity, and uses the Galilei group of the metric. The first principle requires that state functions describing the particles are analytic and the second principle demands that dynamical equations for these functions are Galilean invariant. It is shown that the method can be used to formally derive Schroedinger-like equations and to determine modifications of the Galilei group of the metric that are necessary to fullfil the requirements of analyticity and Galilean invariance. The obtained results shed a new light on the origin of Schroedinger's equation of non-relativistic quantum mechanics.