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We discuss the relation between the two-nucleon Bethe-Salpeter amplitude and the light-front wave functions. Both approaches provide a covariant description for the deuteron bound state and the two-nucleon scattering state. A comparison is done for the spin-orbit functions as well explicit integrals are given on the basis of the Nakanishi integral-representation method.
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Received September 1, 1998; revised November 6, 1998; accepted for publication February 15, 1999
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Bondarenko, S., Burov, V., Beyer, M. et al. Light-Front Versus Bethe-Salpeter Forms of Two-Nucleon Amplitudes. Few-Body Systems 26, 185–196 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s006010050113
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s006010050113