Connection between the energy-momentum vector and the canonical momentum in relativistic mechanics
Teoretičeskaâ i matematičeskaâ fizika, Tome 2 (1970) no. 3, pp. 333-337
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Relativistic mechanics is regarded as a limiting case of a mechanics with four independent canonical momenta $p_i$. It is shown that creation and annihilation of particles is possible in this limiting case. A connection is established between the energy-momentum vector of a particle and its canonical momentum. The usual relation $E=-p_0$ between the energy of a particle and the time component of the canonical momentum is a special case and is only valid when the world line of the particle does not double back in time.
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