Thu, 08 Jun 2006
16:30
16:30
DH 1st floor SR
A teleparallel reformulation of Dirac's equation or quantum electrodynamics for dummies
Dimitri Vassiliev
(University of Bath)
Abstract
The price we pay for this simplicity is that the change of variable
spinor --> coframemakes the Dirac equation nonlinear. The morale of the talk is that, in our opinion, it is more natural to view the Dirac equation as a nonlinear equation for the unknown coframe rather than a linear equation for the unknown spinor.