Interactions compatible with the principles of special relativity are successfully described by relativistic field theories. If the associated field equations can be derived from the Hamiltonian principle of least action with Poincaré -invariant action, then they are covariant and do not single out any inertial frame. The most well-known classical relativistic field theory is Maxwell’s electrodynamics, developed in the nineteenth century.

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Relativistic Field Theories

  • Andreas Wipf

摘要

Interactions compatible with the principles of special relativity are successfully described by relativistic field theories. If the associated field equations can be derived from the Hamiltonian principle of least action with Poincaré -invariant action, then they are covariant and do not single out any inertial frame. The most well-known classical relativistic field theory is Maxwell’s electrodynamics, developed in the nineteenth century.