Time delay for the Dirac equation (Q331653)

The authors define time delay for the quantum scattering pair of Dirac operators \(\{H_0,H\}\), where \(H_0\) is called free Dirac operator and is related to the mass of particles and a \(4\times 4\) Hermitian matrices. Also, the operator \(H_0\) is a self-adjoint operator on \(L^2\). The second operator \(H\) is the perturbed Dirac operator and it is defined by means of a potential V which is an Hermitian \(4\times 4\) matrix valued function defined on \(\mathbb R^3\) such that \(H\) is a self-adjoint operator on \(L^2\). It may be noted that the relation of the time delay operator and the Eisenbud-Wigner time delay operator is given, by using a direct method and this can be applied to other equations in quantum scattering theory, such as, for example, the Schrodinger operator, the Klein-Gordon equation or the Pauli operator.