Seminário da Dead Physicists Society (seminários de graduação)
Representing Symmetry - The Dynamics of the Universe
Palestrante: Gabriel Golfetti, IFUSP
Dia: 21 de novembro, quarta-feira, às 14h.
Local: IFUSP, Ed. Principal, Ala Central, Sala 202.
Abstract:
Special Relativity is one the most thoroughly tested and agreeable theories in all of Physics. Since its originial conception, the physics of the Lorentz group has been studied in many different contexts and interpreted by many great minds, culminating with the representation-theoretic approach given by Dirac in 1928. In this seminar I hope to give a not-too-technical derivation of the Lorentz group and the corresponding Lie algebra based only on postulates of symmetry and causality. Also, I shall be introducing linear representation theory as a means of formulating dynamics of arbitrary complexity that are compatible with the Principle of Relativity.
