Relationship of the Foldy-Wouthuysen Transformation to Lorentz Transformations

Herbert Jehle; William C. Parke

doi:10.1103/PhysRev.137.B760

Relationship of the Foldy-Wouthuysen Transformation to Lorentz Transformations

Herbert Jehle and William C. Parke

Phys. Rev. 137, B760 – Published 8 February 1965

Abstract

The covariant spinor formalism of Infeld and van der Waerden and of Uhlenbeck and Laporte permits a simple interpretation of the relationship between a Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation for a free particle and an associated pair of Lorentz transformations.

Received 28 August 1964

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.137.B760

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Herbert Jehle and William C. Parke

Physics Department, George Washington University, Washington, D. C.

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Vol. 137, Iss. 3B — February 1965

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Relationship of the Foldy-Wouthuysen Transformation to Lorentz Transformations

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