Exact Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation for real spin-0 particle in curved space

A. Accioly and H. Blas
Phys. Rev. D 66, 067501 – Published 25 September 2002
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Abstract

Up to now, the only known exact Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation (FWT) in curved space is that concerning Dirac particles coupled to static spacetime metrics. Here we construct the exact FWT related to a real spin-0 particle for the aforementioned spacetimes. This exact transformation exists independently of the value of the coupling between the scalar field and gravity. Moreover, the gravitational Darwin term written for the conformal coupling is one-third of the corresponding term in the fermionic case. There are some arguments in the literature that seem to favor the choice λ=16. We rehearse a number of claims of these works.

  • Received 11 October 2001

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.66.067501

©2002 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

A. Accioly* and H. Blas

  • Instituto de Física Teórica, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rua Pamplona 145, 01405-900 São Paulo, SP, Brazil

  • *Electronic address: accioly@ift.unesp.br
  • Electronic address: blas@ift.unesp.br

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Vol. 66, Iss. 6 — 15 September 2002

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