phase and conservation of charge in QM



I was looking through the Feynman lectures on physics, and he
mentioned briefly that the symmetry in overall phase of a wavefunction
(that is, that overall phase is arbitrary/irrelevant) is related to
the conservation of charge. Is this true, and if so, can someone
explain the logic behind this?

thanks,

M
.



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