Feynman path summation for the Dirac equation: An underlying one-dimensional aspect of relativistic particle motion
- 1 August 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 28 (2) , 1139-1140
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.28.1139
Abstract
It is observed that the Feynman path summation for the one-dimensional Dirac equation can be projected into three spatial dimensions to yield a path-summation formula for physical spin-½ particles of nonzero mass. Since the three-space projection matrix is independent of time and does not involve the particle's mass, relativistic motion governed by the Dirac equation has an underlying one-dimensional aspect.Keywords
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