A Tale of Three Equations: Breit, Eddington-Gaunt, and Two-Body Dirac

Foundations of Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 67-79

  Van Alstine, Peter ^a   Crater, Horace W ^b  

^a Univ of Tennessee Space Institute ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE SPACE INSTITUTE   (United States)

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EID: 0346572797     PISSN: 00159018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02550156     Document Type: Article

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