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    ALBERT MESSIAH QUANTUM MECHANICS No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by print, photoprint, microfilm or any other means without written permission from the publisher ORIGINAL TITLE: MECANIQUE QUANTIQUE, VOL. IT TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY J. POTTER Orsay (S.-et-0.), France MECANIQUE QUANTIQUE I AND II WERE PUBLISHED BY DUNOD, PARIS SIXTH PRINTING, SEPTEMBER, 1966 PUBLISHERS: NORTH-HOLLAND PUBLISHING COMPANY, AMSTERDAM JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC. — New York * London + Sydney Printed in the United States of America CHAPTER XX THE DIRAC EQUATION I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1. Relativistic Quantum Mechanics ') All of the applications made up to the present have been based on the Schridinger equation. This equation, deduced by the corre- spondence principle from the Hamiltonian formalism of non-relativistic Classical Mechanics, has all the invariance properties of the Hamil- tonian from which it derives. In particular, if the system is isolated, it is invariant under spatial rotations and translations. It can also be shown that it is invariant under Galilean transformations (cf. Problem XV.7). Therefore, the physical properties predicted by the Schrédinger theory are invariant in a Galilean change of referential, but they do not have the invariance under a Lorentz change of referential required by the principle of relativity. Since the Galilean transformation approximates to the Lorentz transformation only in the limit of small velocities, one expects — and experiment verifies — that this theory will correctly describe phenomena only when the velocities of the particles involved are negligible beside the velocity of light: v

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