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Papers
- Construction of Invariant Scalar Amplitudes without
Kinematical Singularities...
[abs]
[416K pdf]
[src]
My infamously unpublished, 1963 Ph.D. dissertation, with
Henry Stapp as advisor.
- On Stapp's Theorem
[abs]
[164K pdf]
With P. Minkowski and R. Seiler, presented at the Boulder
Lorentz Group Symposium, 1964.
- A Relativistic One-Particle Wave-Equation for
Arbitrary Spin and Non-zero Mass
[1.1M pdf]
While finishing graduate studies in Berkeley, I was one of
several people who independently came up with the
2(2j+1)-component spin formalism. I believe that Hans
Joos [Fortschr. d. Phys. 11, 65 (1962)] was the
first. This is a scan of the original manuscript pages.
- The Dirac Algebra for Any Spin
[abs]
[236K pdf]
[src]
Presented at the Boulder Lorentz Group Symposium, 1964. This
paper develops the Dirac algebra corresponding to the
2(2j+1)-component wave equation to a logical conclusion.
- Existence of Parity Experiments...
[abs]
[56K pdf]
[src]
An observation about a claim that appeared in Physical Review
Letters.
- Matrix Elements of the Translation Operator:
Variations on the Jost-Hepp Theorem
[abs]
[236K pdf]
[src]
A 1970 preprint which covers large translations outside the
velocity cone for C∞ vectors and spacelike
translations for analytic vectors. Never submitted for
publication, although I think it has some useful stuff. R.
Seiler and I had planned a sequel with our independent results
for decrease inside the velocity cone, but we never got around
to it.
- Euclidean Fermi Fields with a Hermitean
Feynman-Kac-Nelson Formula, II
[abs]
[220K pdf]
[src]
An unpublished 1974 preprint proposing a solution to the
Euclidean fermion doubling problem that overcame a problem with
local interactions in an earlier attempt of mine. It was
rejected by Communications in Mathematical Physics
because the referee felt it unlikely that the theory could be
renormalizable, due to an extra power of momentum in the
Euclidean Dirac two-point function. Although I thought it quite
possible that the same structure that eliminated the doubling
might help the renormalization, I was too depressed at the time
to pursue it, and never got around to it again.
- Effective Criticality and Stability of the Double
Well Coincident Pair Configuration
[abs]
[116K pdf]
[src]
- Computational Solution for the Double Well Nondilute Pair
Configuration
[abs]
[116K pdf]
[src]
This pair of papers was submitted to Nuclear Physics in
1989, and basically accepted with the proviso that they be
combined into one. I actually did that, but stuff intervened,
and I never resubmitted. As far as I know, the idea in these
papers is not bad. It's interesting in retrospect that the
computational part was really impractical at the time it was
originally done (February, 1983 -- July, 1984) without a
mainframe system (MTS).
- The Elastic Energy-Momentum Tensor in Special
Relativity
[abs]
[184K pdf]
[src]
Work I did mostly in Summer, 1972, with the aim of making an
elastically bound model of the classical point electron. I
didn't know at the time that Bryce DeWitt had already developed
the theory of elasticity in general relativity. In spite of his
prior art, my approach seemed pretty clean, so I published it as
a pedagogical paper [Annals of Physics 196, no. 2,
(1989) 345-360]. Unfortunately, I was also unaware of work done
in the interim that should have been cited, which was sharply
pointed out by one of the experts, Gérard A. Maugin, in
his review of the paper for Mathematical Reviews
(MR1027664).
- The Classical Relativistic Elastic String
[abs]
[188K pdf]
[src]
This 1974 article was neither circulated as a preprint nor
submitted for publication. I was never much attracted by dual
string theory, which was prominent then and has been ever since,
in spite of the elegance of the model and the appealing audacity
of its approach to the problem of quantization by increasing the
number of spacetime dimensions. But I was curious about the
possibility of quantizing nondual string models in conventional
spacetime dimensions. The article develops a possible
foundation for that. While it doesn't attempt actual
quantization, I think it does a pedagogically clean job of
laying out a classical, canonical theory of relativistic elastic
strings.
- Schoonschip '91
[abs]
[84K pdf]
With M. Veltman.
Notes
- Summary of Local Baker-Wightman Invariance for
Euclidean Functional Field Equations
[intro]
[88K pdf]
[src]
G. A. Baker and A. S. Wightman introduced an idea for enlarging
the class of solutions of Euclidean functional field equations
for Φ4 field theories, to possibly avoid their
triviality in four dimensions. As they pointed out, it violated
the cluster property. These notes summarize my extension of
their idea, which aims to restore the cluster property.
- Precession of the Perihelion of Mercury
[abs]
[168K pdf]
[src]
Notes for a pair of lectures on the calculation of the
precession of Mercury in special relativity, contrasted with
Feynman's general relativity approach.
- One-Photon States and Lorentz Invariance
[156K pdf]
[src]
Fairly systematic notes from Physics 621 giving a conceptual
description of Lorentz/Poincaré covariance for photons,
from the point of view of the radiation gauge.
- Review notes on waves
[144K pdf]
From Physics 242, Introduction to Modern Physics.
- Introduction to Lorentz Spinors
[123K pdf]
Very preliminary, only some notes on the homogeneous Lorentz
group and SL(2,C) are included here.
- SL(2,C) Exponentiation Counterexample
[52K pdf]
[src]
A set of examples of elements of SL(2,C) that are not
exponentials of elements of its Lie algebra.
Schoonschip manual
- Schoonschip a program for symbol handling
[616K pdf]
By M. Veltman, edited by DNW. LaTeX'd and indexed manual for
the '91 version of Veltman's Schoonschip.
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