8.323 | Spring 2023 | Graduate

Relativistic Quantum Field Theory I

Lecture 14: Lorentz Covariance of the Dirac Equation

Discussion of how a spinor transforms under Lorentz transformation, Lorentz generators in the spinor representation, properties of Lorentz transformation in the spinor representation, explicit verification of Lorentz covariance of Dirac equation, Dirac action, classical solutions to Dirac equations

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