D'Alembert Operator - Green's Function

Green's Function

The Green's function for the d'Alembertian is defined by the equation

where is the Dirac delta function and and are two points in Minkowski space.

A special solution is given by the retarded Green's function which corresponds to signal propagation only forward in time

where is the Heaviside step function.

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