Foldy–Wouthuysen-type reduction of the second-order Dirac equation

DOI10.1063/1.528295zbMath0693.35140MaRDI QIDQ3468006

Levere C. Hostler

Publication date: 1989

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.528295

zbMATH Keywords

Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation; nonrelativistic reduction; second-order Dirac equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81Q05: Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics

47F05: General theory of partial differential operators

35Q99: Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application

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