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Lorentz invariance and gauge equivariance

R. SaarStefan GrooteStefan GrooteH. Liivat

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HistoryGauge bosonIntroduction to gauge theoryCPT symmetryLorentz transformationLorentz covarianceComputer Science ApplicationsEducationsymbols.namesakeClassical mechanicsLorenz gauge conditionsymbolsQuantum field theoryMathematical physicsGauge fixingMathematics

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Trying to place Lorentz and gauge transformations on the same foundation, it turns out that the first one generates invariance, the second one equivariance, at least for the abelian case. This similarity is not a hypothesis but is supported by and a consequence of the path integral formalism in quantum field theory.

https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/532/1/012007