| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Generalities -- Lie groups and lie algebras -- Rotations : SO(3) and SU(2) -- Representations of SU(2) -- The so(n) algebra and Clifford numbers -- Reality properties of spinors -- Clebsch-Gordan series for spinors -- The center and outer automorphisms of Spin(n) -- Composition algebras -- The exceptional group G₂ -- Casimir operators for orthogonal groups -- Classical groups -- Unitary groups -- The symmetric group S[r subscript] and Young tableaux -- Reduction SU(n) tensors -- Cartan basis, simple roots and fundamental weights -- Cartan classification of semisimple algebras -- Dynkin diagrams -- The Lorentz group -- The Poincaré and Liouville groups -- The Coulomb problem in n space dimensions |
| Summary |
This text gives an introduction to group theory for physicists with a focus on lie groups and lie algebras |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on Nov. 13, 2012) |
| Subject |
Lie groups.
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Lie algebras.
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MATHEMATICS -- Algebra -- Intermediate.
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Lie algebras
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Lie groups
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191745492 |
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0191745499 |
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9780191640070 |
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0191640077 |
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6613947091 |
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9786613947093 |
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9781283634649 |
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1283634643 |
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