Equation 40 · Part 3 · The Clock That Comes Back Wrong by Exactly Its Mass

Symbol m

\Phi[\mathcal L_{\rm G}]=m\,\mathbf b\cdot\mathbf v/\hbar

m

What this part means

the mass.

Its job in the formula

m is one factor in the product that computes the quantity on the left.

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Where the article explains it

The defining fact of the nonrelativistic symmetry group, established by Bargmann and sharpened by Lévy-Leblond, is that its faithful quantum representations require a centrally extended algebra in which [ $K_i$ , $P_j$ ]=i $\hbar$ \,m\, $\delta_{ij}$ \, $\mathbb 1$ , with mass m appearing not as an eigenvalue to be measured state by state but as a fixed number multiplying the identity operator across an entire representation [ 1 , 2 ] .

The passage around this formula

Call $\Phi$ [ $\mathcal L_{\rm G}$ ]=m\, $\mathbf b$ $\cdot$ $\mathbf v$ / $\hbar$ the loop’s phase debt : what the representation charges for a loop the classical group considered free. The loop invariant $\mathbf b$ $\cdot$ $\mathbf v$ carries units of $\mathrm{m^2\,s^{-1}}$ , exactly the units of $\hbar$ / $\text{mass}$ , so $\Phi$ is dimensionless as a phase must be, and mass is recoverable from it as

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