All classical predictions of general relativity from special relativistic Hamiltonian dynamics

Previous special relativistic calculations of gravitational redshift, light deflection and Shapiro delay are extended to include perigee advance. The three classical, order G, post-Newtonian predictions of general relativity as well as general relativistic light-speed-variation are therefore shown to be also consequences of special relativistic Newtonian mechanics in Euclidean space. The calculations are compared to general relativistic ones based on the Schwarzschild metric equation, and related literature is critically reviewed.

MODEL INDEPENDENT CONSTRAINTS ON HADRON FORM FACTORS AT LARGE Q2 IN LIGHT-FRONT QCD

Among the three forms of relativistic Hamiltonian dynamics proposed by Dirac in 1949, the front form has the largest number of kinematic generators. This distinction provides useful consequences in the analysis of physical observables in hadron physics. We discuss a rationale for using the front form dynamics, known nowadays as the light-front dynamics (LFD), and present a few explicit examples of hadron phenomenology that the front form uniquely can offer from the first principle QCD. In particular, model independent constraints are provided for the analyses of deuteron form factors and the NΔ transition form factors at large momentum transfer square Q2.

TWISTORS, SPECIAL RELATIVITY, CONFORMAL SYMMETRY AND MINIMAL COUPLING — A REVIEW

An approach to special relativistic dynamics using the language of spinors and twistors is presented. Exploiting the natural conformally invariant symplectic structure of the twistor space, a model is constructed which describes a relativistic massive, spinning and charged particle, minimally coupled to an external electro-magnetic field. On the two-twistor phase space the relativistic Hamiltonian dynamics is generated by a Poincaré scalar function obtained from the classical limit (appropriately defined by us) of the second order, to an external electro-magnetic field minimally coupled Dirac operator. In the so defined relativistic classical limit there are no Grassman variables. Besides, the arising equation that describes dynamics of the relativistic spin differs significantly from the so-called Thomas Bergman Michel Telegdi equation.