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Detailed Programme of the Week 10/19/2019 -- 10/23/2019:

-- Canonical Quantization

LECT 16 -- Monday 10/19/2020 - 2h Bonciani    12:00-14:00  (Majorana)  meet.google.com/rkn-mafj-mra

Unitarity in gamma_0 metric and Dirac conjugated. Dirac equation. Norether's theorem. Current and Probability density. Lagrangian density and conjugated momenta. Energy momentum tensor. Energy density. Angular Momentum. Spin.



LECT 17 -- Tuesday 10/20/2020 -
2h Bonciani    8:00-10:00  (Conversi)  meet.google.com/szf-gndu-pwc

Internal transformations and invariance of Dirac's equation under U(1) transformations. Charge. Parity and Time reversal. gamma_5.  Bilinear covariants and their behaviour under Lorentz transformations. Algebra of gamma matrices. Traces of gamma matrices.


LECT 18 -- Wednesday 10/21/2020 - 2h Bonciani    9:00-11:00  (Conversi) meet.google.com/szf-gndu-pwc

Plane wave solutions of Dirac's equation. Spinors. Negative energy solutions. Energy projectors.



LECT 19 -- Thursday 10/24/2019 -
2h Bonciani    8:00-10:00  (Majorana) meet.google.com/rkn-mafj-mra

Polarization sum. Spin projectors. Non-relativistic limit and recovering of Schroedinger's equation. Giromagnetic factor of the electron.


LECT 20 -- Friday 10/25/2020 - 2h Bonciani    8:00-10:00  (Conversi)  meet.google.com/szf-gndu-pwc

Charge Conjucation. Hole Theory. Quantization of Dirac's field. Energy density and momentum in terms of creation and annihilation operators.