Classical antiparticles

Abstract

We review how antiparticles may be introduced in classical relativistic mechanics, and emphasize that many of their paradoxical properties can be more transparently understood in the classical than in the quantum domain.

14 pages, standard LaTeX, no figures, no macros. To be published in the American Journal of Physics. Ref [1] is archived here as hep-ph/9503416

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