Published February 9, 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Covariant path integral for the Dirac equation with pseudoscalar potentials

  • 1. L.P.Th, Universite de Jijel, BP 98, Ouled Aissa, Jijel 18000 (Algeria)
  • 2. Departement de Physique, Faculte de Sciences, Universite Mentouri, Route Ain El-Bey, Constantine 25000 (Algeria)

Description

The problem of a relativistic spinning particle interacting with pseudoscalar potentials in (3 + 1) dimensions is formulated in the framework of covariant supersymmetric path integrals. The relative Green's function is expressed through a functional integral over bosonic trajectories that describe the external motion and fermionic variables that describe the spin degrees of freedom. As an application, we have considered the case of the plane wave, where the pseudoscalar potential is an arbitrary function of the variable (kμxμ). The (3 + 1)-dimensional problem is reduced to a (1 + 1)-dimensional one by using an identity. For the case of k2 = 0, the relative propagator is exactly calculated and the wavefunctions are extracted

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1088/1751-8113/40/6/012;
PII
S1751-8113(07)35964-7;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Physics. A, Mathematical and Theoretical (Online)
Journal Volume
40
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
p. 1349-1359
ISSN
1751-8121