Electronic Resource
College Park, Md.
:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Journal of Mathematical Physics
40 (1999), S. 4903-4910
ISSN:
1089-7658
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Mathematics
,
Physics
Notes:
It is shown that the trajectories of a charged particle in a static magnetic field and a velocity-independent potential in a three-dimensional space are (the projection of) the geodesics of a suitably defined metric in a four-dimensional space. It is shown that each one-parameter group of isometries of the original configuration space that leaves the magnetic field invariant gives rise to a one-parameter group of isometries of the metric defined on the four-dimensional space and, hence, to a constant of the motion. It is also shown, similarly, that the Schrödinger equation for a charged particle in a static magnetic field is equivalent to the Schrödinger equation for a free particle in the four-dimensional space mentioned above. © 1999 American Institute of Physics.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.533006
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