Equation 83 · The Atlas That Refuses to Close
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Symbol X_NW
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subscript
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None of this says a relativistic particle’s position is meaningless. It says the specific combination this atlas has been building — a sharp operator, exact eigenstates, and strictly causal free-particle dynamics — cannot be jointly realized by any chart above, Newton–Wigner included. The theorem applies to exactly as it applies to , since commuting components buy nothing against Hegerfeldt’s argument; the argument never uses the commutator structure, only positivity of energy and the existence of a bounded region with zero amplitude outside it.
Sources cited in the article section
- [6] Remark on Causality and Particle Localization ↗
- [7] Violation of Causality in Relativistic Quantum Theory? ↗
- [8] Localization and Causality in Relativistic Quantum Mechanics ↗
- [10] Notes on Some Entanglement Properties of Quantum Field Theory ↗
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