Timeline for Is the electric current in QED uncharged under the gauge field?
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| Aug 10, 2017 at 18:02 | vote | accept | tparker | ||
| Aug 10, 2017 at 9:27 | answer | added | Arnold Neumaier | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 11, 2017 at 15:22 | comment | added | tparker | @ACuriousMind "A question of the form What does this notation/terminology mean? is on-topic if it cannot immediately be answered by a simple Google search/Wikipedia lookup." My question is "What does the terminology 'charged under the gauge field' mean?" | |
| Jul 11, 2017 at 12:15 | comment | added | ACuriousMind♦ | I'm not sure what exactly you expect as an answer here - yes, if you define "charged" as "transforms non-trivially under the gauge group", then the QED electric currents are uncharged. And yes, that definition clashes with our classical notion of calling $j^0$ the charge density. Asking whether certain terminology is "standard" is off-topic as primarily opinion-based - is there something else you want to know about this? | |
| Jul 11, 2017 at 6:31 | history | asked | tparker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |