Derivation of the Schrödinger equation from scale invariance
Teoretičeskaâ i matematičeskaâ fizika, Tome 26 (1976) no. 3, pp. 414-418
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It is shown that ff one postulates an equation of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics in the form $\partial\psi/\partial t=f(V,\psi,\psi^*)$, where $V$ is the potential energy, and requires that this equation, like the action (of the usual form) be invariant under the group of transformations $\mathbf x\to\lambda\mathbf x$, $t\to\mu(\lambda)t$, and also imposes certain other weak restrictions, these conditions uniquely lead to the Schrödinger equation.