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Trione, Susana Elena:
Soluzioni elementari causali dell'operatore di Klein—Gordon iterato
Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali. Rendiconti Serie 8 52 (1972), fasc. n.5, p. 607-610, (Italian)
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The distributions $G_{\alpha} \{ P \pm i0, m, n \}$ (formula (1)) share many properties with the Bessel kernel, of which they are "causal" ("anticausal") analogues. In particular (Theorem 1), $G_{\alpha} \ast G_{-2k} = G_{\alpha-2k}$, $\Lambda \alpha \in \mathbf{C}$, $\Lambda k = 0,1,2,\cdots$. The essential tool for the proof of this formula is the multiplication formula (4), namely $$\{ m^{2}+Q(y) \mp i0 \}^{\alpha} \{ m^{2}+ Q(y) \mp i0 \}^{\beta} = \{ m^{2}+ Q(y) \mp i0 \}^{\alpha + \beta},$$ which is valid for every $\alpha,\beta \in \mathbf{C}$. It follows from Theorem (1) that $G_{2k} \{ P \pm i0,m,n \}$, is, for $n \ge 2$, $k = 1, 2, \cdots$, a causal (anticausal) elementary solution of the n-dimensional Klein-Gordon operator, iterated $k$ times (Theorem 2). The particular case $n = 4$, $k = 1$ is important in the quantum theory of fields, since $G_{2} \{ P \pm i0,m,4 \}$ embodies a useful expression of the causal propagator of Feynman. It may be observed that the elementary solutions $G_{2k} \{ P \pm i0,m,n \}$ have the same form for every $n \ge 2$. This does not happen for other elementary solutions, whose form depends essentially on the parity of $n$.
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