Abstract
A connection is established between solutions of the Dirac equation (for an electron in a constant magnetic field) and those of the wave equation for a particle with zero mass.
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Translated from Izvestiya VUZ. Fizika, No. 12, pp. 96–100, December, 1973.
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Temchin, A.N. On the Dirac equation. Soviet Physics Journal 16, 1704–1707 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00893666
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00893666