TIME REVERSAL INVARIANCE

The following sections are included:

• Preliminary Discussion

• Time Reversal Invariance in Classical Physics

• Problems with Linear Realization of Time Reversal Transformation

• The Anti-Unitary Time Reversal Operator

• Irreducible Representations of the Full Poincare Group in the Time-Like Case

• Irreducible Representations in the Light-Like Case (c₁ = c₂ = 0)

• Physical Consequences of Time Reversal Invariance

  • Time Reversal and Angular Momentum Eigenstates

  • Time-Reversal Symmetry of Transition Amplitudes

  • Time Reversal Invariance and Perturbation Amplitudes

• Problems