Discovery of the Relativistic Schr\"odinger Equation
History and Philosophy of Physics
2026-03-04 v4 Quantum Physics
Abstract
We discuss the discovery of the relativistic wave equation for a spin-zero charged particle in the Coulomb field by Erwin Schr\"odinger (and elaborate on why he didn't publish it).
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@article{arxiv.2012.12467,
title = {Discovery of the Relativistic Schr\"odinger Equation},
author = {Kamal Barley and José Vega-Guzmán and Andreas Ruffing and Sergei K. Suslov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.12467},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
Schr\"odinger equation, Klein-Gordon-Fock equation, Dirac equation, hydrogen atom, WKB-approximation