Flyredeagle

Hi I'm Diego,

I started my journey to write articles on wikipedia around 2014 first as a motivation to learn stuff, it then became a way to learn to write more complex professional scientific articles, and later as a way to consolidate established knowledge and prior art.

My interest areas are around mathematical physics, and field theory in general whether this is theoretical or it is applied to condensed matter, General Relativity or to particle physics. I am interested in anything from QED, QFT, General Relativity and Dynamical systems, down to ADS/CFT, strongly correlated systems and Quantum Hall effect. On the math side I am interested in anything related to the Langlands program starting from Group and representation theory, Complex, Differential, Symplectic, Projective geometry and ending with things such as the moonshine.

Ideally I am also on a path to learn a lot of stuff related to the Langlands program and it's applications in physics. This includes also some algebraic geometry and some number theory but I do have some philosophical issues with Boubarkism and some pure mathematicians.

Beliefs

I am essentially a constructivist, I do strongly believe that pure math or pure physics does not exists but it is all just a knowledge continuum both in terms of learning and teaching, and also in the context of research and the Langlands program. If you look at serious mathematicians like the russians such as Kolmogorov, Gelfand and Arnold, the french such as Chevalley and Grothendieck or more recent ones such as Borcherds or Frenkel they don't shy off from applied math or quantum mechanics.

I also feel that it is still possible to do real innovative research in well established areas such as QFT or Condensed matter. There is currently no lack of experimental data in condensed matter, but often there is a lack of enough skills in the research community, for example I am interested in applications of number theory in physics, but it's not for the faint of heart.

Research on the foundations of physics is also hard and a lot based on the correctness of the derivations and coherency of the constructs. Namely to have genuine growth in physics: experiments shall be a commodity and mathematics shall have non ad-hoc tools (as instead is often the case).

I also do opt in for the democratization of science [[1]][[2]], which even here is not always applied. I learned to my sadness that the world of our children is kind of curious: is heavily based on science and technology, but the majority of people are totally illiterate in regards to science and technology, therefore given information will not be a commodity it will be heavily non-democratic.

Separation between Pure mathematics and applied math has been considered damaging to the whole of mathematics, including education [[3]], research [[4]] and other areas [[5]]. The criticism around the Bourbaki group is also applicable to pure math in general, where there is a preference to formalism over the ontology and the measurements [[6]].

Wikipedia Beliefs

I think that reading wikipedia shall be fun therefore more multimedia content shall be included, like images and videos, this for various reasons is quite lacking in the area of physics, and is a kind of impediment to get wikipedia to the next level.

I think that wikipedia shall also contain more advanced content like full undergrad and some more graduate content. Currently most of high school content is there, and now is time to push one step further. This should happen without impacting readability, namely:

• having more sections with proofs boxes and detail boxes that are not mandatory to read
• more specialized content in high and mid QC level pages.
• leaving featured articles for what they are: introductory articles as field surveys.
• more specialized pages for graduate content (this I miss a lot)
• for non graduate content an average undergrad shall be able to read through most content in a first pass read and recognize it without going through the proof/detail boxes,
• the proof and detail boxes shall contain instead recognizable and average text book content and this can fit a second pass read.
• Exploit the medium: i.e. this is hypertext and can be used in a different manner than a book
• Exploit the medium: add multimedia content
• I also like suggestive formulas and to "read in the formulas" that may express a lot more than a lot of words.
• A huge improvement on quality pictures, namely simulations, tech pictures and diagrams for significant examples

I think writing wikipedia articles should be fun but this is not always the case due to a few wikipedia sociopaths but today I decided it's time to let it go. I also understand why some academic professionals in the context of physics consider often wikipedia a bad quality source, I think this can change given this is not the case for math.

Maintaned pages

• Drude model
• Hartree equation
• Bloch theorem
• Slater determinant
• Adiabatic theorem
• Elementary flow
• Creation and annihilation operators
• Ladder operator
• Dyson series
• Interaction picture
• Quantum Hall Effect
• Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

TODO / wishlist

Physics

Mathematical physics

• add topics to density matrix page as requested here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Sbyrnes321

Condensed Matter

• Fix citations on Free electron model
• Berry phase
• Draft:TKNN formula
• Tight binding
• Hofstadter butterfly
• Weyl semimetal
• Nearly free electron model
• Fix COI at Frequency selective surface see (talk:Frequency selective surface)
• add computations to hartree equation page
• add Feynmann diagrams to hartree equation
• add refs to hartree equation page (e.g. grosso parravicini ? Dispense ?)
• Hartree-Fock method - mathematical formulation
• add section on feynmann and grassman on talk:Hartree–Fock method page as mentioned in the talk

Field Theory

• Expand Statistical field theory as in Talk:Statistical Mechanics
• add refs to elementary flow
• expand examples to elementary flow see talk:elementary flow
• expand on the conformal invariance in elementary flow

Stochastic

• more work on fractional schroedinger, feynmann KAC
• Add derivations on SQM and SED in Stochastic Quantum Mechanics

QFT

• more QFT stuff e.g. computations examples on feynmann diagrams, e.g. mattuck
• Add sth about Wigner and the full representation of Lorentz group including virtual & space alike particles, antiunitary and anti-causal stuff
• Add sth about On mass shell - off shell
• Add sth about spinors starting from Cartan sesqui-linear forms and Penrose books

Physics Exercises

• Add computations and Examples with Feynmann rules, diagrams and Path integrals
• Add computations for some GR metrics like ER, the falling observer in a black hole, and rotating ones
• Add computations for some GR metrics for cosmology

Math

• I would love to do some more wikipedia contributions on the math side but some time is not that easy due to "the others"
• Last week I contributed with ADE classification and it is the first time it does not get deleted.