The role of boundary conditions in solving finite-energy, two-body, bound-state Bethe-Salpeter equations

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DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2003.12.011zbMATH Open1052.81034arXivmath-ph/0309051OpenAlexW2111497597MaRDI QIDQ598166FDOQ598166

G. B. Mainland

Publication date: 6 August 2004

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

Abstract: The difficulties that typically prevent numerical solutions from being obtained to finite-energy, two-body, bound-state Bethe-Salpeter equations can often be overcome by expanding solutions in terms of basis functions that obey the boundary conditions. The method discussed here for solving the Bethe-Salpeter equation requires only that the equation can be Wick rotated and that the two angular variables associated with rotations in three-dimensional space can be separated, properties that are possessed by many Bethe-Salpeter equations including all two-body, bound-state Bethe-Salpeter equations in the ladder approximation. The efficacy of the method is demonstrated by calculating finite-energy solutions to the partially-separated Bethe-Salpeter equation describing the Wick-Cutkosky model when the constituents do not have equal masses.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0309051




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