Equation 5 · Part 3 · No Particle Without a Cosigner
Symbol a
What this part means
a is an input to the expression that computes the quantity on the left.
Its job in the formula
a is an input to the expression that computes the quantity on the left.
Full expression→Symbol a→Article meaning
The passage around this formula
When any of the coefficients is nonzero, the vacuum of the a -decomposition is a many-particle state of the -decomposition, and vice versa: “how many particles are present” is a question whose answer depends on which set of modes was declared fundamental, not on the field configuration by itself. Fulling showed this could happen already in flat,…
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A variable is a named place for a value. Its letter is a local label: x can mean position in one formula and a data point in another.
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Sources cited in the surrounding passage
- [2] Nonuniqueness of Canonical Field Quantization in Riemannian Space-Time ↗
- [3] Scalar Production in Schwarzschild and Rindler Metrics ↗
- [1] Notes on Black-Hole Evaporation ↗
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