Comment on Cawley's counterexample to a conjecture of Dirac
- 15 May 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 21 (10) , 2986-2987
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.21.2986
Abstract
Cawley's example still leaves open the possibility that "Dirac's test" always provides all the gauge generators. Below an example is given in which both Dirac's conjecture and Dirac's test fail.Keywords
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