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Huygens' principle and Dirac-Weyl equation

Quantum Physics 2017-06-29 v2

Abstract

We investigate the validity of Huygens' principle for forward propagation in the massless Dirac-Weyl equation. The principle holds for odd space dimension n, while it is invalid for even n. We explicitly solve the cases n=1,2 and 3 and discuss generic nn. We compare with the massless Klein-Gordon equation and comment on possible generalizations and applications.

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@article{arxiv.1703.00036,
  title  = {Huygens' principle and Dirac-Weyl equation},
  author = {Saverio Pascazio and Francesco V. Pepe and Juan Manuel Pérez-Pardo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.00036},
  year   = {2017}
}

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7 pages, 1 figure