Bhabha relativistic wave equations

被引:11
作者
Loide, RK
Ots, I
Saar, R
机构
[1] ESTONIAN ACAD SCI, INST PHYS, EE-2400 TARTU, ESTONIA
[2] ESTONIAN AGR UNIV, EE-2400 TARTU, ESTONIA
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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS A-MATHEMATICAL AND GENERAL | 1997年 / 30卷 / 11期
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D O I
10.1088/0305-4470/30/11/027
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
It is a well known fact that the Dirac and Kemmer-Duffin equations are the Bhabha equations. We use the method based on the de Sitter group SO(1,4) to show that the Rarita-Schwinger and Bargmann-Wigner equations can also be treated as the Bhabha equations with some subsidiary conditions. This demonstrates that the de Sitter group can be considered as a significant auxiliary group which provides a unified approach to the equations of relativistic quantum theory.
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页码:4005 / 4017
页数:13
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