Exponential decay of eigenfunctions of the Bethe-Salpeter operator

Letters in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 53-62

  Bach, Volker ^a   Matte, Oliver ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bethe and Salpeter; Brown and Ravenhall; Dirac operator; Exponential decay

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042871524     PISSN: 03779017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010957006903     Document Type: Article

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