Wheeler propagator

Citation
Cg. Bollini et Mc. Rocca, Wheeler propagator, INT J THEOR, 37(11), 1998, pp. 2877-2893
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS
ISSN journal
00207748 → ACNP
Volume
37
Issue
11
Year of publication
1998
Pages
2877 - 2893
Database
ISI
SICI code
0020-7748(199811)37:11<2877:WP>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
We study the half-advanced and half-retarded Wheeler Green function and its relation to Feynman propagators, first for massless equation, then, for Kl ein-Gordon equations with arbitrary mass parameters, real, imaginary, or co mplex. In all cases the Wheeler propagator lacks an on-shell free propagati on. The Wheeler function has support inside the light-cone (whatever the ma ss). The associated vacuum is symmetric with respect to annihilation and cr eation operators. We show with some examples that perturbative unitarity ho lds, whatever the mass (real or complex). Some possible applications are di scussed.