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Group theory in a nutshell for physicists / A. Zee

By: Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: BuchBookLanguage: English Series: In a nutshellPublisher: Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2016]Copyright date: © 2016Description: xviii, 613 Seiten : Illustrationen, Diagramme ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 0691162697
  • 9780691162690
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Erscheint auch als: Group Theory in a Nutshell for Physicists. Online-Ausgabe 1st ed. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2016. 1 online resource (633 pages)DDC classification:
  • 512/.2 23
  • 512.202453
MSC: MSC: *20-01 | 00A06 | 20C35 | 22E70 | 81-01RVK: RVK: SK 260 | UK 3000 | SK 950LOC classification:
  • QC20.7.G76
Contents:
Review of linear algebra -- Symmetry and groups -- Finite groups -- Rotation and the notion of Lie algebra -- Representation theory -- Schur's lemma and the great orthogonality theorem -- Character is a function of class -- Real, pseudoreal, complex, and the number of square roots -- Crystals -- Euler, Fermat, and Wilson -- Frobenius groups -- Quantum mechanics and group theory: degeneracy -- Group theory and harmonic motion -- Symmetry in the laws of physics: Lagrangian and Hamiltonian -- Tensors and representations of the rotation groups SO(N) -- Lie algebra of SO(3) and ladder operators: creation and annihilation -- Angular momentum and Clebsch-Gordan decomposition -- Tensors and representations of the unitary groups SU(N) -- SU(2): double covering and the spinor -- The electron spin and Kramer's degeneracy -- Integration over continuous groups, topology, and coset manifolds -- Symplectic groups and their algebras -- From Lagrangian mechanics to quantum field theory: it's but a skip and a hop -- Multiplying irreducible representations of finite groups: return to the tetrahedral group...
Call number: Grundsignatur: 2017 E 477PPN: PPN: 837208904
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