Relativistic Quantum Mechanics: Wave Equations

Front Matter....Pages I-XVI
Relativistic Wave Equation for Spin-O Particles The Klein-Gordon Equation and Its Applications....Pages 1-73
A Wave Equation for Spin-½ Particles — The Dirac Equation....Pages 75-98
Lorentz-Covariance of the Dirac Equation....Pages 99-117
Spinors under Spatial Reflection....Pages 119-120
Bilinear Covariants of the Dirac Spinors....Pages 121-125
Another Way of Constructing Solutions of the Free Dirac Equation: Construction by Lorentz Transformations....Pages 127-143
Projection Operators for Energy and Spin....Pages 145-150
Wave Packets of Plane Dirac Waves....Pages 151-159
Dirac Particles in External Fields: Examples and Problems....Pages 161-200
The Two-Centre Dirac Equation....Pages 201-216
The Foldy-Wouthuysen Representation for Free Particles....Pages 217-231
The Hole Theory....Pages 233-259
Klein’s Paradox....Pages 261-267
The Weyl Equation — The Neutrino....Pages 269-279
Wave Equations for Particles with Arbitrary Spins....Pages 281-312
Lorentz Invariance and Relativistic Symmetry Principles....Pages 313-338
Back Matter....Pages 339-347