19 research outputs found
Remarks on Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau theory and gauge invariance
Two problems relative to the electromagnetic coupling of Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau
(DKP) theory are discussed: the presence of an anomalous term in the
Hamiltonian form of the theory and the apparent difference between the
Interaction terms in DKP and Klein-Gordon (KG) Lagrangians. For this, we first
discuss the behavior of DKP field and its physical components under gauge
transformations. From this analysis, we can show that these problems simply do
not exist if one correctly analyses the physical components of DKP field.Comment: 19 pages, no figure
The causal approach to scalar QED via Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau equation
In this work we consider the scalar QED via Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau equation in the framework of Bogoliubov-Epstein-Glaser causal perturbation theory. We calculate the lowest order distributions for Compton scattering, vacuum polarization, the self energy and, by using a Ward identity, the vertex correction. The causal method provides a mathematically well defined and noneffective theory which determines, in a natural way, the propagator and the vertex of the usual effective theory
Effects due to a scalar coupling on the particle-antiparticle production in the Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau theory
The Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau formalism with vector and scalar potentials is used
to point out a few misconceptions diffused in the literature. It is explicitly
shown that the scalar coupling makes the DKP formalism not equivalent to the
Klein-Gordon formalism or to the Proca formalism, and that the spin-1 sector of
the DKP theory looks formally like the spin-0 sector. With proper boundary
conditions, scattering of massive bosons in an arbitrary mixed vector-scalar
square step potential is explored in a simple way and effects due to the scalar
coupling on the particle-antiparticle production and localization of bosons are
analyzed in some detail
A variational approach to strongly damped wave equations
We discuss a Hilbert space method that allows to prove analytical
well-posedness of a class of linear strongly damped wave equations. The main
technical tool is a perturbation lemma for sesquilinear forms, which seems to
be new. In most common linear cases we can furthermore apply a recent result
due to Crouzeix--Haase, thus extending several known results and obtaining
optimal analyticity angle.Comment: This is an extended version of an article appeared in
\emph{Functional Analysis and Evolution Equations -- The G\"unter Lumer
Volume}, edited by H. Amann et al., Birkh\"auser, Basel, 2008. In the latest
submission to arXiv only some typos have been fixe
Approximate solution of the Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau equation for a vector Yukawa potential with arbitrary total angular momenta
The usual approximation scheme is used to study the solution of the
Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau (DKP) equation for a vector Yukawa potential in the
framework of the parametric Nikiforov-Uvarov (NU) method. The approximate
energy eigenvalue equation and the corresponding wave function spinor
components are calculated for arbitrary total angular momentum in closed form.
Further, the approximate energy equation and wave function spinor components
are also given for case. A set of parameter values is used to obtain the
numerical values for the energy states with various values of quantum levelsComment: 17 pages; Communications in Theoretical Physics (2012). arXiv admin
note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1205.0938, and with
arXiv:quant-ph/0410159 by other author