Relationship of the Foldy-Wouthuysen Transformation to Lorentz Transformations
- 8 February 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 137 (3B), B760-B762
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.137.b760
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.Keywords
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