Superstatistics approach to path integral for a relativistic particle

Petr Jizba and Hagen Kleinert
Phys. Rev. D 82, 085016 – Published 15 October 2010

Abstract

Superstatistics permits the calculation of the Feynman propagator of a relativistic particle in a novel way from a superstatistical average over nonrelativistic single-particle paths. We illustrate this for the Klein-Gordon particle in the Feshbach-Villars representation, and for the Dirac particle in the Schrödinger-Dirac representation. As a by-product we recover the worldline representation of Klein-Gordon and Dirac propagators, and discuss the role of the smearing distributions in fixing the reparametrization freedom. The emergent relativity picture that follows from our approach together with a novel representation of the Lorentz group for the Feshbach-Villars particle are also discussed.

  • Received 29 July 2010

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.82.085016

© 2010 The American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Petr Jizba*

  • FNSPE, Czech Technical University in Prague, Břehová 7, 115 19 Praha 1, Czech Republic, and ITP, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 14 D-14195 Berlin, Germany

Hagen Kleinert

  • ITP, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 14 D-14195 Berlin, Germany, and ICRANeT, Piazzale della Republica 1, 10-65122, Pescara, Italy

  • *p.jizba@fjfi.cvut.cz
  • kleinert@physik.fu-berlin.de

See Also

Emergence of special and doubly special relativity

Petr Jizba and Fabio Scardigli
Phys. Rev. D 86, 025029 (2012)

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Vol. 82, Iss. 8 — 15 October 2010

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