On Gravitational Interaction of Fermions

DOI10.1002/1521-3978(200205)50:5/7%3C711::AID-PROP711%3E3.0.CO;2-ZMaRDI QIDQ4552566zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yuri N. Obukhov

Publication date 3 September 2002

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0112080

zbMATH Keywords

Cini-Touschek transformationFoldy-Wouthuysen transformationparticles with spin 1/2relativistic quantum theorystatic spacetime metricultra-relativistic limit

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17)

Abstract: We discuss some aspects of the gravitational interaction of the relativistic quantum particles with spin 1/2. The exact Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation is constructed for the Dirac particle coupled to the static spacetime metric. The quasi-relativistic limit of the theory is then analyzed. Using the analogous method, we obtain the exact Cini-Touschek transformation and discuss the ultra-relativistic limit of the fermion theory. We show that the Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation is not uniquely defined, and the corresponding ambiguity is deeply rooted in the relativistic quantum theory.

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