Majorana and the path-integral approach to Quantum Mechanics
History and Philosophy of Physics
2007-05-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Physics Education
Popular Physics
Abstract
We give, for the first time, the English translation of a manuscript by Ettore Majorana, which probably corresponds to the text for a seminar delivered at the University of Naples in 1938, where he lectured on Theoretical Physics. Some passages reveal a physical interpretation of the Quantum Mechanics which anticipates of several years the Feynman approach in terms of path integrals, independently of the underlying mathematical formulation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0603140,
title = {Majorana and the path-integral approach to Quantum Mechanics},
author = {S. Esposito},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0603140},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
revtex, 9 pages, 2 figures; a contribution in the centenary of the birth of Ettore Majorana