A robust generalization of the Legendre transform for QFT — mentioned by jessriedel

Sun, 05 May 2019 17:17:47 GMT

> I'm a professor in condensed matter physics, doing research actively, quite well aware of Lagrangian mechanics and relativistic QFT, path integrals, and I also taught QFT. That's my background. Sorry, that was my mistake. I didn't expect that someone knowledgeable would say the Legendre transform "doesn't really show up in quantum mechanics". Even if you want to dispute whether the switch between Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations of quantum mechanics is truly a Legendre transform, rather than a generalization that doesn't deserve that name, it seems incumbent on you to state clearly…

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A robust generalization of the Legendre transform for QFT — mentioned by jessriedel