What is it that Lagrangian density with only bilinear terms always corresponds to free field theory?

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Is there an intuitive proof of this fact? (Maybe connected in some way to Central Limit Theorem?).

score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 18 '15 at 20:59

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Because that way the Euler-Lagrange equations turn out to be linear and thus the superposition principle holds. Superposition principle means "free theory".

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What is it that Lagrangian density with only bilinear terms always corresponds to free field theory?

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