The Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation with Dirac matrices in the chiral representation: closed expressions for energy operators of fermions moving in electrostatic fields

2025/08/14 by Neznamov, V. P.
#FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2508.11015

Abstract

In this paper, we obtain the closed expressions for energy operators in the Foldy-Wouthuysen representation in the presence of electrostatic fields. We also establish the connection between the Foldy-Wouthuysen representation and the Feynman-Gell-Mann representation.

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