Timeline for Physics terminology about smeared and unsmeared fields
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| Oct 10, 2017 at 0:20 | answer | added | user1504 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 29, 2017 at 23:28 | comment | added | Javier | It's just an abuse of notation, exactly like pretending $\delta(x)$ is a function. The "smeared field" talk is for intuition: it explains why we use distributions. | |
| Sep 29, 2017 at 22:38 | comment | added | Ryan Unger | The notation $u(x)$ for a distribution $u$ is a nice way of reminding everyone "which" space of test functions you act on, and is especially useful when working with product space/tensor products. | |
| Sep 29, 2017 at 22:08 | answer | added | yuggib | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 29, 2017 at 20:29 | history | edited | Gold | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 29, 2017 at 18:32 | history | asked | Gold | CC BY-SA 3.0 |