Spin, gravity, and inertia

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 192-195

  Obukhov, Yuri N ^a,b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CHARGE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; RELATIVITY; SPACE RESEARCH;

DIRAC FERMIONS; DIRAC PARTICLE; FOLDY-WOUYTHUYSEN TRANSFORMATION; GRAVITATIONAL CHARGE; GRAVITATIONAL MOMENT; RELATIVISTIC QUANTUM MECHANICS; SPIN INTERACTION EFFECT;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 18044403053     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.192     Document Type: Article

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