Exact construction of the electromagnetic current operator in relativistic quantum mechanics
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Exact construction of the electromagnetic current operator in relativistic quantum mechanics
zbMATH Open document ID: 0814.47080
author: Felix M. Lev
published in: Annals of Physics
publication date: 1995-06-12T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9403222
review text: The electromagnetic current operator of a composite system must be a relativistic vector operator satisfying current conservation, cluster separability, and the condition that interactions between the constituents do not renormalize the total electric charge. Assuming that these interactions are described in the framework of relativistic quantum mechanics of systems with a fixed number of particles we explicitly construct the current operators satisfying the above properties in cases of two and three particles and prove that solutions exist for any number of particles. The consideration is essentially based on the method of packing operators in the point form of relativistic dynamics developed by Sokolov. Using the method developed by Sokolov and Shatny we also construct the current operators in the instant and front forms and prove that the corresponding results are physically equivalent. The paper is self-contained, which makes it possible for the reader to learn both relativistic quantum mechanics of systems with a fixed number of particles and the problem of constructing the electromagnetic current operator for such systems.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 47N50
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 81V10
zbMATH DE Number: 713569
zbMATH Keywords: relativistic vector operator
zbMATH Keywords: conservation
zbMATH Keywords: cluster separability
zbMATH Keywords: relativistic quantum mechanics of systems with a fixed number of particles
zbMATH Keywords: electromagnetic current operator
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
OpenAlex ID: W1507046215
DOI: 10.1006/APHY.1995.1013
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