Worldline path integral for the massive Dirac propagator: A four-dimensional approach

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1762-1776

  Alexandrou, C ^a,b   Rosenfelder, R ^b   Schreiber, A W ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); GREEN'S FUNCTION; HAMILTONIANS; INTEGRATION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DIRAC PARTICLES; GRASSMAN VARIABLES; MASSIVE DIRAC PROPAGATOR; PATH INTEGRAL;

PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0000181830     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.59.1762     Document Type: Article

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