Relativistic wave equations for interacting massive particles with arbitrary half-integer spins

by Jiri NIEDERLE (Prague)

Thursday 16 Nov 2000, 16:00 → 17:00 Europe/Zurich

TH Auditorium (CERN)

First, advantages and disadvantages of various relativistic wave equations which have been used to describe the behaviour and properties of massive particles with arbitrary half-integer spins interacting with electromagnetic or other external fields are briefly summarised. Then, a description of two types of new relativistic wave equations proposed by the author and A. G. Nikitin and based on antisymmetric tensor-spinors is given. It turns out that these equations are causal and do not lead to the usual difficulties typical for other approaches.