(In-)consistencies in the relativistic description of excited states in the Bethe-Salpeter equation

DOI10.1006/aphy.1999.5922zbMath1057.81524arXivhep-th/9810241OpenAlexW3101776572MaRDI QIDQ1300558

Steven Ahlig, Reinhard Alkofer

Publication date: 10 May 2000

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9810241

zbMATH Keywords

Bethe-Salpeter equation, Dyson-Schwinger equations, QED bound states

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Covariant wave equations in quantum theory, relativistic quantum mechanics (81R20) Bethe-Salpeter and other integral equations arising in quantum theory (81Q40)

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