Quantum Mechanics of Neutrino Oscillations

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Subtle problems in the theory of neutrino oscillations in vacuum are discussed. It is shown that Lorentz invariance implies that in general flavor neutrinos in oscillation experiments are superpositions of massive neutrinos with different energies and different momenta. It is argued that a wave packet description of massive neutrinos is necessary in order to understand the physics of neutrino oscillations.