On the spectral properties of the Brown-Ravenhall operator

DOI10.1016/S0377-0427(02)00583-6zbMath1029.47053MaRDI QIDQ1860443

W. Desmond Evans, Alexander A. Balinsky

Publication date: 23 February 2003

Published in: Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

eigenvaluespositivityDirac operatorangular momentumessential spectravirial theoremBrown-Ravenhall operatoroptimal charge range

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of operator theory in the physical sciences (47N50) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Atomic physics (81V45)

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