Published July 15, 1980
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Journal article
Causality of a wave equation and invariance of its hyperbolicity conditions
Creators
- 1. Departamento de Fisica Teorica and G.I.F.T., Facultad de Ciencias Fisicas, Universidad Complutense, Madrid-3, Spain
Description
A characterization of the noncausal behavior of a covariant wave equation is given in terms of the invariance of the hyperbolicity conditions. Some examples in which the Dirac field is not causal are studied
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Phys. Rev., D
- Journal Volume
- 22
- Journal Issue
- 2
- Series
- Phys. Rev., D.
- Journal Page Range
- 385-390
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 11562969
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CAUSALITY; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIRAC EQUATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; LORENTZ INVARIANCE; RARITA-SCHWINGER THEORY; RELATIVITY THEORY; T INVARIANCE; WAVE FORMS
- Descriptors DEC
- EQUATIONS; FIELD EQUATIONS; FIELD THEORIES; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES