Published 2000 | Version v1
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How one can construct a consistent relativistic quantum mechanics on the base of a relativistic wave equation

  • 1. Universidade Federal de Sergipe (UFS), Aracaju, SE (Brazil)
  • 2. Sao Paulo Univ. (USP), SP (Brazil). Inst. de Fisica

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Full text follows: There is a common opinion that the construction of a consistent relativistic quantum mechanics on the base of a relativistic wave equation meets well-known difficulties related to the existence of infinite number of negative energy levels, to the existence of negative vector norms, and so on, which may be only solved in a second-quantized theory, see, for example, two basic papers devoted to the problem L.Foldy, S.Wouthuysen, Phys. Rep.78 (1950) 29; H.Feshbach, F.Villars, Rev. Mod. Phys. 30 (1958) 24, whose arguments are repeated in all handbooks in relativistic quantum theory. Even Dirac trying to solve the problem had turned last years to infinite-component relativistic wave equations, see P.A.M. Dirac, Proc. R. Soc. London, A328 (1972) 1. We believe that a consistent relativistic quantum mechanics may be constructed on the base of an extended (charge symmetric) equation, which unite both a relativistic wave equation for a particle and for an antiparticle. We present explicitly the corresponding construction, see for details hep-th/0003112. We support such a construction by two demonstrations: first, in course of a careful canonical quantization of the corresponding classical action of a relativistic particle we arrive just to such a consistent quantum mechanics; second, we demonstrate that a reduction of the QFT of a corresponding field (scalar, spinor, etc.) to one-particle sector, if such a reduction may be done, present namely this quantum mechanics. (author)

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Proceedings of the 21. Brazilian national meeting on particle physics and fields

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Original title (English)
Anais do 21. Encontro nacional de fisica de particulas e campos

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Imprint Title
Proceedings of the 21. Brazilian national meeting on particle physics and fields
Imprint Pagination
[vp.]
Journal Page Range
1 p.

Conference

Title
21. Brazilian national meeting on particle physics and fields
Original Conference Title
21. Encontro nacional de fisica de particulas e campos
Dates
23-27 Oct 2000
Place
Sao Lourenco, MG (Brazil)

INIS

Country of Publication
Brazil
Country of Input or Organization
Brazil
INIS RN
38065564
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference, Non-conventional Literature
Descriptors DEI
ANTIPARTICLES; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; PARTICLES; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SECOND QUANTIZATION; SYMMETRY; SYMMETRY GROUPS; WAVE EQUATIONS
Descriptors DEC
ANTIMATTER; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; EQUATIONS; MATTER; MECHANICS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; QUANTIZATION

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Imprint:Anais do 21. Encontro nacional de fisica de particulas e campos