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A Note on Creation and Annihilation in Statistical Assemblies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

T. E. Sterne
T. E. Sterne*
Affiliation:
Trinity College; Lecturer on Astrophysics, Harvard University
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Abstract

The statistical method described in 21·4 of Fowler's Statistical Mechanics was devised to deal with assemblies in which the total numbers of elementary physical systems remained constant. The same method is applicable, with no formal changes, to assemblies in which elementary physical systems of two different sorts can be created and annihilated in pairs, like the negative and positive electrons in the theory of Dirac.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , April 1935 , pp. 303 - 306
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1935

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