Discrete physics and the Dirac equation

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 218, Issue 3-6, 1996, Pages 139-146

  Kauffman, Louis H ^a   Noyes, H Pierre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calculus of finite differences; Choice sequences; Dirac equation; Discrete physics; Feynman checkerboard; Rational versus complex quantum mechanics

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; QUANTUM THEORY;

CALCULUS OF FINITE DIFFERENCES; CHOICE SEQUENCE; CLASSICAL CALCULUS; COMPLEX FORMS; DIRAC EQUATIONS; FEYNMAN CHECKERBOARD; LATTICE PATHS; WEIGHTED SUM;

LINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 0042124894     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0375-9601(96)00436-7     Document Type: Article

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