Relativistic descriptions of few-body systems

Abstract

A brief review of relativistic effects in few-body systems, of theoretical approaches, recent developments and applications is given. Manifestations of relativistic effects in the binding energies, in the electromagnetic form factors and in three-body observables are demonstrated. The three-body forces of relativistic origin are also discussed.

Comments: 9 pages, 5 figures, Contribution to the proceedings of the 21st European Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, Salamanca, Spain, 30 August - 3 September 2010; submitted in Few-Body Systems. A reference for section 2 is updated. References for section 3 are added