Equation 59 · Part 3 · The Atlas That Refuses to Close
Symbol Sigma
What this part means
Sigma is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Its job in the formula
Sigma is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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The passage around this formula
The first, the covariant centre of energy, transforms simply as the spatial part of a four-vector under a change of Lorentz frame — exactly the property was built with above — but its three spatial components fail to commute with each other once spin is present, by an amount proportional to the spin itself. The second, constructed by Newton and Wigner for exactly this purpose and reproduced in Pryce’s classification as a distinct case, has strictly commuting components, [, ] = 0 , the property any operator called “position” ought to have if it is to support ordinary probability densities and wavefunction localization at all, at the price of…
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