The Maximal Velocity of a Photon

2011/03/15 by Avy Soffer, Soffer, Avy
Mathematics · #Analysis of PDEs (math.AP) #FOS: Mathematics #FOS: Physical sciences #Mathematical Physics (math-ph) #Numerical methods in inverse problems #Spectral Theory in Mathematical Physics #advanced mathematical theories

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1103.3031

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Abstract

The probability of a photon to move faster than light, under the Einstein Quantum dynamics is shown to vanish for large times. The proof is based on using propagation estimates on multiscaled energy intervals, to control the singular symbol of the Hamiltonian, at zero.

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