A New Derivation of the Propagator's Path Integral for Spinless Elementary Particles

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2103.14730v2
• Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 20:52:30 GMT
• Title: A New Derivation of the Propagator's Path Integral for Spinless Elementary Particles
• Authors: Domenico Napoletani, Daniele C. Struppa
• Abstract summary: We show that the quantization of motion of spinless elementary particles in a general potential field can be derived in this framework. Extrapolating this approach to include weak relativistic effects, we explore possible experimental consequences.
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• Abstract: We introduce a notion of isolated units, elementary particles or more general physical phenomena that do not significantly affect their surrounding environment, and we build a primitive ontology to describe their evolution and interaction. We further introduce a notion of indistinguishability of distinct spacetime paths of a unit, for which the evolution of the state variables of the unit is the same, and a generalization of the equivalence principle based on indistinguishability. Under a time invertibility condition on the whole set of indistinguishable paths of a unit, we show that the quantization of motion of spinless elementary particles in a general potential field can be derived in this framework, in the limiting case of weak fields and low velocities. Extrapolating this approach to include weak relativistic effects, we explore possible experimental consequences.

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