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Advances in Mathematical Physics
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 680367, 10 pages
doi:10.1155/2011/680367
Research Article
Relativistic Spinning Particle without Grassmann Variables and the Dirac Equation
Departamento de Matematica, Instituto de Ciências Exatas (ICE), Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, 36039-900 Juiz de Fora, MG, Brazil
Received 31 March 2011; Revised 30 July 2011; Accepted 23 August 2011
Academic Editor: Stephen Anco
Copyright © 2011 A. A. Deriglazov. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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