How Do Gauge Transformations Influence Physical Fields?

zheng89120 · Dec 29, 2011

I have some ideas of canonical transformation is, but the ideas behind gauge transformation is still eluding me.

Snicker · Dec 30, 2011

In short, a canonical transformation is a transformation of the phase space coordinates which maps Hamiltonian flows onto Hamiltonian flows and a gauge transformation defines equivalence classes on field potential functions which leaves "physical fields" invariant.

How Do Gauge Transformations Influence Physical Fields?

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