The projected single-particle Dirac operator for Coulombic potentials

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Authors Doris H. Jakubassa-Amundsen

Publication date 10 November 2005

Published in Documenta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/51809, http://www.emis.de/journals/DMJDMV/vol-10/09.html

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Perturbation theories for operators and differential equations in quantum theory (81Q15) Atomic physics (81V45)

Review text

Summary: A sequence of unitary transformations is applied to the one-electron Dirac operator in an external Coulomb potential such that the resulting operator is of the form \(\Lambda_+ A\,\Lambda_+\,+\Lambda_-A\,\Lambda_-\;\) to any given order in the potential strength, where \(\Lambda_+\) and \(\Lambda_-\) project onto the positive and negative spectral subspaces of the free Dirac operator. To first order, \(\Lambda_+ A \,\Lambda_+\) coincides with the Brown-Ravenhall operator. Moreover, there exists a simple relation to the Dirac operator transformed with the help of the Foldy-Wouthuysen technique. By defining the transformation operators as integral operators in Fourier space it is shown that they are well-defined and that the resulting transformed operator is \(p\)-form bounded. In the case of a modified Coulomb potential, \( V=-\gamma x^{-1+\varepsilon}\), \(\varepsilon >0\), one can even prove subordinacy of the \(n\)-th order term in \(\gamma\) with respect to the \(n-1\)st order term for all \(n>1\), as well as their \(p\)-form boundedness with form bound less than one.

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