AUTHOR=Ord G. N. 

TITLE=The Feynman chessboard model in 3 + 1 dimensions

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Physics

VOLUME=11

YEAR=2023

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physics/articles/10.3389/fphy.2023.1286030

DOI=10.3389/fphy.2023.1286030

ISSN=2296-424X

ABSTRACT=<p>The chessboard model was Feynman’s adaptation of his path integral method to a two-dimensional relativistic domain. It is shown that chessboard paths encode information about the contiguous <italic>pairs</italic> of paths in a spacetime plane, as required by discrete worldlines in Minkowski space. The application of coding by pairs in a four-dimensional spacetime is then restricted by the requirements of the Lorentz transformation, and the implementation of these restrictions provides an extension of the model to 4D, illuminating the relationship between relativity and quantum propagation.</p>