New applications of pseudoanalytic function theory to the Dirac equation

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/38/42/003zbMATH Open1081.81031arXivmath-ph/0506072OpenAlexW3105719963MaRDI QIDQ5706151FDOQ5706151

Antonio Rafael Selva Castañeda, Vladislav V. Kravchenko

Publication date: 4 November 2005

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

Abstract: In the present work we establish a simple relation between the Dirac equation with a scalar and an electromagnetic potentials in a two-dimensional case and a pair of decoupled Vekua equations. In general these Vekua equations are bicomplex. However we show that the whole theory of pseudoanalytic functions without modifications can be applied to these equations under a certain not restrictive condition. As an example we formulate the similarity principle which is the central reason why a pseudoanalytic function and as a consequence a spinor field depending on two space variables share many of the properties of analytic functions. One of the surprising consequences of the established relation with pseudoanalytic functions consists in the following result. Consider the Dirac equation with a scalar potential depending on one variable with fixed energy and mass. In general this equation cannot be solved explicitly even if one looks for wave functions of one variable. Nevertheless for such Dirac equation we obtain an algorithmically simple procedure for constructing in explicit form a complete system of exact solutions (depending on two variables). These solutions generalize the system of powers of z in complex analysis and are called formal powers. With their aid any regular solution of the Dirac equation can be represented by its Taylor series in formal powers.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0506072

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Solutions to PDEs in closed form (35C05) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Generalizations of Bers and Vekua type (pseudoanalytic, (p)-analytic, etc.) (30G20)

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