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Relativistic Harmonic Oscillator

Alex Harvey

Published Sep 15, 1972• 27 citations

Abstract

A relativistic formulation of the simple harmonic oscillator is discussed. It differs from the customary formulation in that it is derivable from a Lorentz-invariant variational principle. A consistent relativistic quantization procedure is thereby admitted.

DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.6.1474

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