Relativistic description of proton-proton bremsstrahlung

We investigate the influence of negative-energy states in proton-proton bremsstrahlung in a fully relativistic framework using the t-matrix of Fleischer and Tjon. The contribution from negative-energy states in the single-scattering diagrams are found to be large, indicating that relativistic effects are sizable. The rescattering contribution compensates some of the effect, but at higher photon energies we find that the relativistic contributions become increasingly more important. The cancellation found at lower energies is shown to be due to a low-energy theorem.