Finite-difference equations in relativistic quantum mechanics

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/28/4/005MaRDI QIDQ4889284zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Víctor Aldaya, Julio Guerrero

Publication date 28 January 1997

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9410220

zbMATH Keywords

finite-difference equationsordinary momentum operatorPoincaré grouppolarization equationsposition operatorrelativistic quantum mechanicsShapiro's wavefunctions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Additive difference equations (39A10) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10)

Abstract: Relativistic Quantum Mechanics suffers from structural problems which are traced back to the lack of a position operator $hatx$, satisfying $[hatx,hatp]=ihbarhat1$ with the ordinary momentum operator $hatp$, in the basic symmetry group -- the Poincar'e group. In this paper we provide a finite-dimensional extension of the Poincar'e group containing only one more (in 1+1D) generator $hatpi$, satisfying the commutation relation $[hatk,hatpi]=ihbarhat1$ with the ordinary boost generator $hatk$. The unitary irreducible representations are calculated and the carrier space proves to be the set of Shapiro's wave functions. The generalized equations of motion constitute a simple example of exactly solvable finite-difference set of equations associated with infinite-order polarization equations.

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