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Phys. Rev. 137, B760–B762 (1965)

Relationship of the Foldy-Wouthuysen Transformation to Lorentz Transformations

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Herbert Jehle and William C. Parke
Physics Department, George Washington University, Washington, D. C.

Received 28 August 1964; published in the issue dated February 1965

The covariant spinor formalism of Infeld and van der Waerden and of Uhlenbeck and Laporte permits a simple interpretation of the relationship between a Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation for a free particle and an associated pair of Lorentz transformations.

© 1965 The American Physical Society

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