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A cluster-separable Born approximation for the 3D reduction of the three-fermion Bethe-Salpeter equation
We perform a 3D reduction of the two-fermion Bethe-Salpeter equation based on
Sazdjian's explicitly covariant propagator, combined with a covariant
substitute of the projector on the positive-energy free states. We use this
combination in the two fermions in an external potential and in the
three-fermion problems. The covariance of the two-fermion propagators insures
the covariance of the two-body equations obtained by switching off the external
potential, or by switching off all interactions between any pair of two
fermions and the third one, even if the series giving the 3D potential is
limited to the Born term or more generally truncated. The covariant substitute
of the positive energy projector preserves the equations against continuum
dissolution without breaking the covariance.Comment: 21 pages, 1 figure This article has been deeply modified after
refereeing. The presentation has been improved and examples have been added.
Three subsections have been added (transition matrix elements, two-body
limits, covariant Salpeter's equation). submitted to Journal of Physics
3D reduction of the N-body Bethe-Salpeter equation
We perform a 3D reduction of the two-fermion Bethe-Salpeter equation, by
series expansion around a positive-energy instantaneous approximation of the
Bethe-Salpeter kernel, followed by another series expansion at the 3D level in
order to get a manifestly hermitian 3D potential. It turns out that this
potential does not depend on the choice of the starting approximation of the
kernel anymore, and can be written in a very compact form. This result can also
be obtained directly by starting with an approximation of the free propagator,
based on integrals in the relative energies instead of the more usual
delta-constraint. Furthermore, the method can be generalized to a system of N
particles, consisting in any combination of bosons and fermions. As an example,
we write the 3D equation for systems of two or three fermions exchanging
photons, in Feynman or Coulomb's gauge.Comment: 22 pages, 3 figures in one single ps file. In the first revision, the
self-energy corrections to the propagator have been taken into account. The
three figures were gathered in a single ps file instead of three eps. In this
second revision (after submission to Nuclear Physics A and refereeing) some
explanations have been added, plus a new subsection about the scattering of a
particle by a bound stat
Supersymmetry and superalgebra for the two-body system with a Dirac oscillator interaction
Some years ago, one of the authors~(MM) revived a concept to which he gave
the name of single-particle Dirac oscillator, while another~(CQ) showed that it
corresponds to a realization of supersymmetric quantum mechanics. The Dirac
oscillator in its one- and many-body versions has had a great number of
applications. Recently, it included the analytic expression for the eigenstates
and eigenvalues of a two-particle system with a new type of Dirac oscillator
interaction of frequency~. By considering the latter together with its
partner corresponding to the replacement of~ by~, we are able
to get a supersymmetric formulation of the problem and find the superalgebra
that explains its degeneracy.Comment: 21 pages, LaTeX, 1 figure (can be obtained from the authors), to
appear in J. Phys.
Bethe-Salpeter equation: 3D reductions, heavy mass limits and abnormal solutions
We show that the 3D reductions of the Bethe-Salpeter equation have the same
bound state spectrum as the original equation, with the possible exception of
some solutions for which the corresponding 3D wave function vanishes. The
abnormal solutions of the Bethe-Salpeter equation (corresponding to excitations
in the relative time-energy degree of freedom), when they exist, are recovered
in the 3D reductions via a complicated dependence of the final potential on the
total energy. We know however that the one-body (or one high mass) limit of
some 3D reductions of the exact Bethe-Salpeter equation leads to a compact 3D
equation (by a mutual cancellation of the ladder and crossed graph
contributions), which does not exhibit this kind of dependence on the total
energy anymore. We conclude that the exact Bethe-Salpeter equation has no
abnormal solution at this limit, or has only solutions for which our 3D wave
function vanishes. This is in contrast with the results of the ladder
approximation, where no such cancellation occurs. We draw the same conclusions
for the static model, which we obtain by letting the mass of the lighter
particle go also to infinity. These results support Wick's conjecture that the
abnormal solutions are a spurious consequence of the ladder approximation.Comment: 11 pages Latex, 1 figure Postscript. Submitted to Journal of Physics
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