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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0703.00020.] A symbol calculus for operators on \(H^{1/2}(R^ n)\) is introduced by using Minkowski spacetime \(M_{n+1}\) and the notion of observers in relativity sense. An unrestricted observer is described by its space-time position \(x=(t,\vec x)\), \(\vec x\in R^ n\) and (constant) velocity \(\vec v\in R^ n\). Two unrestricted observers are equivalent if their position at time zero \(x-tv\) and velocity \(v\) are the same. Symbols will be a function on such equivalence classes of observers \(\omega\). The space \(H^{1/2}(R^ n)\) is identified with the \(L^ 2\) space on the positive mass hyperboloid (with unit mass) in energy momentum space \(R^{n+1}\) relative to the Lorentz invariant measure via the (inverse) Fourier transform and multiplication of energy \(p^ 0=(1+\vec p^ 2)^{1/2}\). The special inversion for the observer \(\omega\) defines an operator \(\sigma_ \omega\) on this Hilbert space. For a trace-class operator \(A\) there, its passive symbol \(g\) is defined by \(g(\omega)=2^ n\text{Tr}(A\sigma_ \omega)\). An operator \(Op(f)\) with an active symbol \(f\) is defined by \[ Op(f)=2^ n\int f(\omega)\sigma_ \omega d\omega, \] where one may take the \(t=0\) representation \((0,\vec x,\vec v)\) for \(\omega\) and then \(d\omega=P_ 0^{-2}d\vec x d\vec p\) with \(p=(1| v|^ 2)^{-1/2}(1,-\vec v)\). The two symbols are related by a simple formula (Theorem 3.3). A formula for the symbol of the product of two operators in terms of respective symbols is given (Theorem 4.3). Some further basic analysis of this symbol calculus and its limit of infinite light velocity are given.