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that satisfy the equation are thought of as being on shell, though the classical theory does not allow negative values for the energy of a particle. This is because the propagator incorporates into one expression the cases in which the particle carries energy in one direction, and in which its
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are in general allowed to be off shell, but the amplitude for the process will diminish depending on how far off shell they are. This is because the
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of the virtual particle is the difference between the four-momenta of the incoming and outgoing particles.
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Arkani-Hamed, N. (Dec 21, 2012). "Scattering Amplitudes and the Positive Grassmannian".
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of a particle. The equation for the mass shell is also often written in terms of the
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Configurations of a system that do or do not satisfy classical equations of motion
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This is an instance of Noether's theorem. Here, the conserved quantity is the
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Points on the hyperboloid surface (the "shell") are solutions to the equation.
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varying the field and its derivative and setting the variation to zero
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carries energy in the other direction; negative and positive on-shell
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under the infinitesimal transformation. On the other hand, by
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equation by simply substituting the Euler–Lagrange equation:
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The Euler–Lagrange equation for this action can be found by
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regarding differentiable symmetries of physical action and
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then simply represent opposing flows of positive energy.
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is a scalar, and so will infinitesimally transform as
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When speaking of the propagator, negative values for
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are termed off shell because they do not satisfy the
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Since this has to hold for independent translations
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