This chapter is a recall of the algebraic tool used in the real formalism and the passage from the Dirac equation of the electron in the complex spinor formalism to the real form given by Hestenes to this equation. It is completed by the first paragraph of the Appendix of Part I, which allows a step-by-step traduction of the complex formalism to the real one and vice versa.
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(2009). The Dirac Equation of the Electron in the Real Formalism. In: Relativistic Transitions in the Hydrogenic Atoms. Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics, vol 52. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85550-7_3
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