• DOI:10.1007/s00023-020-01015-y
• Corpus ID: 229679731

Infrared Problem vs Gauge Choice: Scattering of Classical Dirac Field

@article{Herdegen2021InfraredPV,
  title={Infrared Problem vs Gauge Choice: Scattering of Classical Dirac Field},
  author={Andrzej Herdegen},
  journal={Annales Henri Poincar{\'e}},
  year={2021},
  pages={1-55}
}

• A. Herdegen
• Published 28 December 2020
• Mathematics
• Annales Henri Poincaré

We consider the Dirac equation for the classical spinor field placed in an external, time-dependent electromagnetic field of the form typical for scattering settings: $$F=F^\mathrm{ret}+F^\mathrm{in}=F^\mathrm{adv}+F^\mathrm{out}$$
, where the current producing $$F^{\mathrm{ret}/\mathrm{adv}}$$
has past and future asymptotes homogeneous of degree $$-3$$
, and the free fields $$F^{\mathrm{in}/\mathrm{out}}$$
are radiation fields produced by currents with similar asymptotic behavior. We show the existence of the electromagnetic gauges in which the particle has ‘in’ and ‘out’ asymptotic states approaching free field states, with no long-time corrections of the free dynamics. Using a special Cauchy foliation of the spacetime, we show in this context the existence and asymptotic completeness of the wave operators. Moreover, we define a special ‘evolution picture’ in which the free evolution operator has well-defined limits for $$t\rightarrow \pm \infty $$
; thus the scattering wave operators do not need the free evolution counteraction.