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Phys. Rev. 130, 406–409 (1963)

Commutation Relations and Conservation Laws

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Julian Schwinger*
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Received 16 October 1962; published in the issue dated April 1963

The response of a physical system to external electromagnetic and gravitational fields, as embodied in the electric current and stress tensor conservation laws, is used to derive the equal-time commutation relations for charge density and energy density.

© 1963 The American Physical Society

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*Supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (ARDC) under contract A. F. 49 (638)-589.