Tuesday, 18 October 2016

quantum field theory - Why is normal ordering a valid operation?


Why is normal ordering even a valid operation in the first place? I mean it can give us some nice results, but why can we do the ordering for the operators like that?


Is its definition motivated by the relation between the normal ordering and the time-ordered product, which is basically the content of Wick's theorem?




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