Published March 1981 | Version v1
Journal article

Relativistic theory of interacting particles

  • 1. Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, 4630 Bochum 1, West Germany

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The question of whether the ten generators for the Poincare group as given in a field theoretical model can be reduced to the pure particle space without invalidating the commutation relations is studied. We come to a positive answer in the framework of perturbation theory. In a simple model of scalar particles exchanging scalar bosons we construct the generators in lowest order in the coupling constant and compare the expressions with the ones found by Foldy and Krajcik in a 1/c2 expansion. We recover their result, but find in addition new terms in the interaction, which remained principally undetermined in their treatment. Possible useful features of the ''relativistically generalized Schroedinger equation'' are pointed out

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Journal Title
Phys. Rev., C
Journal Volume
23
Journal Issue
3
Series
Phys. Rev., C.
Journal Page Range
1183-1195
ISSN
0556-2813