Existence of global-in-time solutions to a generalized Dirac-Fock type evolution equation

Letters in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 99-113

  Hainzl, Christian ^a   Lewin, Mathieu ^a   Sparber, Christof ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c Vienna University   (Austria)

Author keywords

Dirac equation; Hartree Fock model; QED; Semilinear evolution equations; Vacuum polarization

Indexed keywords

EID: 21644484828     PISSN: 03779017     EISSN: 15730530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11005-005-4377-9     Document Type: Article

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