The Dirac equation as one fourth-order equation for one function: a general, manifestly covariant form

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-74971-6_1MaRDI QIDQ4646371zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andrey Akhmeteli

Publication date 11 January 2019

Published in Quantum Foundations, Probability and Information (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.02351

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Covariant wave equations in quantum theory, relativistic quantum mechanics (81R20) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

Abstract: Previously (A. Akhmeteli, J. Math. Phys., v. 52, p. 082303 (2011)), the Dirac equation in an arbitrary electromagnetic field was shown to be generally equivalent to a fourth-order equation for just one component of the four-component Dirac spinor function. This was done for a specific (chiral) representation of gamma-matrices and for a specific component. In the current work, the result is generalized for a general representation of gamma-matrices and a general component (satisfying some conditions). The resulting equivalent of the Dirac equation is also manifestly relativistically covariant and should be useful in applications of the Dirac equation.

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