Klein-Gordon plane-wave normalization

ID: klein-gordon-plane-wave-normalization

For in Minkowski spacetime, these modes obey and have Klein-Gordon inner product . Their conjugates have the opposite norm and are orthogonal to the positive-frequency modes. Plane waves are a generalized, delta-normalized basis; normalizable wave packets have positive norm . Completeness follows by applying the spatial Fourier transform to the Klein-Gordon equation, which gives the two branches for each momentum.

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