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arxiv: 1007.3922 · v2 · pith:RQZVOD2Unew · submitted 2010-07-22 · ✦ hep-th · cond-mat.stat-mech· quant-ph

Superstatistics approach to path integral for a relativistic particle

classification ✦ hep-th cond-mat.stat-mechquant-ph
keywords particlerepresentationapproachdiracfeshbach-villarsklein-gordonnovelrelativistic
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Superstatistics permits the calculation of the Feynman propagator of a relativistic particle in a novel way from a superstatistical average over non-relativistic single-particle paths. We illustrate this for the Klein-Gordon particle in the Feshbach-Villars representation, and for the Dirac particle in the Schroedinger-Dirac representation. As a byproduct 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.

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