Adam M Bincer

Lie Groups and Lie Algebras - A Physicist's Perspective

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is intended for graduate students in Physics, especially Elementary Particle Physics. It gives an introduction to group theory for physicists with a focus on Lie groups and Lie algebras.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 168mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780199662920
• ISBN-10: 0199662924
• Artikelnr.: 47869901

Autorenporträt

Adam Bincer is Professor Emeritus at University of Wisconsin - Madison.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Generalities
2: Lie Groups and Lie Algebras
3: Rotations: SO(3) an SU(2)
4: Representations of SU(2)
5: The so(n) Algebra and Clifford Numbers
6: Reality Properties of Spinors
7: Clebsch-Gordan Series for Spinors
8: The Center and Outer Automorphisms of Spin(n)
9: Composition Algebras
10: The Exceptional Group G2
11: Casimir Operators for Orthogonal Groups
12: Classical Groups
13: Unitary Groups
14: The Symmetric Group Sr and Young Tableaux
15: Reduction of SU(n) Tensors
16: Cartan Basis, Simple Roots and Fundamental Weights
17: Cartan Classification of Semisimple Algebras
18: Dynkin Diagrams
19: The Lorentz Group
20: The Poincare and Liouville Groups
21: The Coulomb Problem in n Space Dimensions