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Alexander Afriat, « Einstein and the old quantum theory », HAL-SHS : histoire, philosophie et sociologie des sciences et des techniques, ID : 10670/1.jvt2ok
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Objecting that Sommerfeld's quantum conditions refer to particular coordinates, Einstein proposes a more invariant rule. Even if the invariance is in fact canonical, as Graffi (2005) has pointed out, Einstein may have in mind a double configuration space invariance: with respect to loop deformations, and to point transformations-all on a torus where features of the Liouville-Arnol'd theorem already appear.