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Detailed Programme of the Week 11/22/2021 -- 11/26/2021:

-- Canonical Quantization



LECT 42-43 -- Tuesday 11/23/2021 - 2h Bonciani    20:00-22:00        (from home)       meet.google.com/evr-pyuk-bmn

Charge conjugation. Time reversal. PCT invariance. Quantization of Dirac's field. Energy density and momentum in terms of creation and annihilation operators.


LECT 44-45 -- Wednesday 11/24/2021 - 2h Bonciani    20:00-22:00       (from home)       meet.google.com/evr-pyuk-bmn

Anti-commutation relations and positive definite energy density. Fock space, antisymmetric two-particle state and Fermi statistics. Locality and Causality. Massless fermions (Weyl neutrinos).
Electromagnetic field. Maxwell's equations. Scalar and vector potentials. Gauge invariance.
Covariant form of Maxwell's equations.


LECT 46-47 -- Thursday 10/29/2020 - 2h Bonciani    20:00-22:00     (from home)       meet.google.com/evr-pyuk-bmn

Lorentz gauge. Electromagnetic tensor and Electric-Magnetic field equations in covariant form. Larangian density. Counting of the actual degrees of freedom in covariant form (and Coulomb gauge).