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Why do we treat a scalar field phi and its derivatives as being independent when trying to find a stationary solution for the action?
Doesn't that give too general solutions?
Where does the restriction that (d_mu phi) is dependent on phi come back in?
Doesn't that give too general solutions?
Where does the restriction that (d_mu phi) is dependent on phi come back in?