A relativistic theory of the inclusive scattering of nuclei is given. The theory is applicable to meson production reactions as well as to the yields of light nuclei. A characterization of the relativis¬tic nuclear wave function is given and its connection to the standard wave function is explicitly shown. Counting rules are derived that allow one to simply characterize the behavior of the reaction cross sections in terms of the short range behavior of the nucleon-nucleon force. Good agreement with experiment is achieved if the force is assumed to be due to the exchange of vector mesons with monopole form factors at each vertex. The predictions are successfully compared to several reactions. The theory can also be applied to electromagnetic interactions in light nuclei. Using our relativistic nuclear wave functions, form factors and deep inelastic structure functions are analyzed.
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