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The derivation behind this trade-off runs through the ten generators of the Poincaré algebra rather than through anything special to a particular particle. The boost generator is one fixed physical object for a given one-particle state; writing it as a symmetrized combination of a position candidate and the energy only closes the algebra’s commutation relations correctly if either the position candidate absorbs a spin-momentum term, yielding commuting components and frame dependence, the Newton–Wigner choice, or that term is left attached to the boost generator itself, leaving the position candidate free of it but noncommuting, the covariant choice. Both are legitimate solutions of…
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Equation 62 · Evolutionary Physics
The Atlas That Refuses to Close
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The derivation behind this trade-off runs through the ten generators of the Poincaré algebra rather than through anything special to a particular particle. The boost generator is one fixed physical object for a given one-particle state; writing it as a symmetrized combination of a position candidate and the energy only closes the algebra’s commutation relations correctly if either the position candidate absorbs a spin-momentum term, yielding commuting components and frame dependence, the Newton–Wigner choice, or that term is left attached to the boost generator itself, leaving the position candidate free of it but noncommuting, the covariant choice. Both are legitimate solutions of…
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