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The Philosophical Magazine A Journal of Theoretical Experimental and Applied Physics

All you need to know about the Dirac equation

P. Weinberger

Published Jun 21, 2008• 8 citations
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Abstract

A very brief introduction is given to all that is needed to appreciate the formal structure of the Dirac equation and why–without destroying this structure–it cannot be reduced to a Pauli-Schrödinger type equation.
DOI
10.1080/14786430802247171

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