Abstract
A boundary condition at t = ± ∞ (t being the “relative” time variable) is obtained for the four-dimensional wave function of a two-body system in a bound state. It is shown that this condition implies that the wave function can be continued analytically to complex values of the “relative time” variable; similarly the wave function in momentum space can be continued analytically to complex values of the “relative energy” variable P 0. In particular one is allowed to consider the wave function for purely imaginary values of t, or respectively p 0, i.e., for real values of x 4 = ict and p 4 = ip 0. A wave equation satisfied by this function is obtained by rotation of the integration path in the complex plane of the variable p 0, and it is further shown that the formulation of the eigenvalue problem in terms of this equation presents several advantages in that many of the ordinary mathematical methods become available.
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