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Integration of Dirac's Efforts to construct Lorentz-covariant Quantum Mechanics

@article{Kim2020IntegrationOD,
  title={Integration of Dirac's Efforts to construct Lorentz-covariant Quantum Mechanics},
  author={Young S. Kim and M. Noz},
  journal={arXiv: Quantum Physics},
  year={2020}
}
The lifelong efforts of Paul A. M. Dirac were to construct localized quantum systems in the Lorentz covariant world. In 1927, he noted that the time-energy uncertainty should be included in the Lorentz-covariant picture. In 1945, he attempted to construct a representation of the Lorentz group using a normalizable Gaussian function localized both in the space and time variables. In 1949, he introduced his instant form to exclude time-like oscillations. He also introduced the light-cone… 
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