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The purpose of this chapter is to review the Dirac equation in Minkowski spacetime and familiarize the reader with some of our notational conventions. This preliminary material may skipped by readers already familiar with its contents, and referred to as needed.
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Collas, P., Klein, D. (2019). The Dirac Equation in Special Relativity. In: The Dirac Equation in Curved Spacetime. SpringerBriefs in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14825-6_2
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